16th-century Protestantism

1536–1541 disbanding of religious residences by Henry VIII

series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries

Anabaptist movement concurrent with the Protestant Reformation

religious and political movement that established the Church of Scotland

thumb|upright=1.3|In this 19th-century illustration, John Wycliffe is shown giving the Bible translation that bore his name to his Lollard followers.

In Protestant Reformation history, confessionalization is the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). For most of this time, there was a nominal peace in the Holy Roman Empire between the Protestant and Catholic confessions as both competed to establish their faith more firmly with the population of their respective areas. This confession-building occurred through "social-disciplining," as there was a stricter enforcement by the churches of their particular rules for all aspects of life in bo

members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland

part of England's switch to Protestantism

sixteenth-century religious sect