Popular resentment
against change, in
particular religious
change: the
dissolution of the
monastries
Intervention of the
clergy, the
rebellion reflected
the anger if an
entire community
Was it spontaneous?
Yes
It was arguably the
dissolution that acted as the
last straw and hence could
be classed as spontaneous
because people only then
began to rise.
No
Government policies were causing considerable
resentment by 1536 among the localities, there were
also grievances which related much more closely to
gentry concerns.
The course of the rebellion revealed a
considerable degree of organisation
Significance/threat?
Was a threat
The rebellion reflected angers of entire
communities and so it brought both high and
low politics together - means more of a threat
as more of a wide ranging class of people-
harder to ignore
Even if the rebels did not want to challenge the
king directly, the demands to reverse his policies
and dismiss his closest advisors could leave him
unable to effectively rule even though he remains
the king