Key terms for the Tudors 1485-1603

Act of Attainder

Annates

Anticlericalism

Bonds

Bourgeoisie

Bull

Bureaucrat

Calvinism

Catholic Reformation

Chamber

Chancery

Chantries

Chivalrous

Collectanea satis copiosa

Consubstantiation

Convocation

Common rights

Corpus Christi

Courtier

Courts of Assize

Council Learned in the Law

Debasement

Diocese

Duchy of Lancaster

Eltham Ordinances

Enclosure

Erasmianism

Erastian

Eucharist

Excommunication

Extraordinary revenue

Feudal System

Feudal Dues/Aid

Field of the Cloth of Gold

Fifteenths and tenths

Forty-Two Articles

Great chain of being

Gothic

Groom of the stool

Guilds and confraternities

Habsburgs

Hanseatic League

Heir presumptive

Heresy

Homily

Holy Roman Empire

Household government

Huguenot

Iconoclasm

Intercession

Intercursus Malus

Intercursus Magnus

King's Great Matter

King's Council

Laity

Legatine Court

Livery and maintenance

Lollardy

Lord Chancellor

Lord Lieutenant

Lord Chamberlain

Lord Protector

Lutheran

Marcher Lordships

Merchant Adventurers

Magnate

Navigation Acts

Papal Legate

Pastoral duties

Pastoral farming

Patronage

Peasant

Penance

Peerage

Perpendicular style

Praemunire

Prerogative rights

Presbyterians

Privy Chamber

Purgatory

Puritanism

Real Wages

Recognizance

Recusant

Reformation

Regent

Reformation Parliament

Renaissance

Retaining

Regular Clergy

Secular Clergy

Secular

Sectaries

Separatists

Star Chamber

Statute of Uses 1535-36

Submission of the Clergy

Subsidy

Supplication of the ordinaries

Synod

Tonnage and poundage

Transubstantiation

Wardship

Yeomen