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Question: How did King Henry VIII contribute to the social changes of the Reformation!?
I'm also not particularly sure what 'social' refers to when used like that!. Would it just be how people relate to each other!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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By social it means how did he contribute to SOCIETY's views of the Reformation and religion!.

How did he do it!? He further secularized religion by manipulating it for his personal purposes and making it an official government institution, while essentially setting the ball rolling for the Protestantization of all of England- a fact that has remained essentially to the present!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Chiefly by dissolving the monasteries and selling of giving away the land
-- thus putting the land-owning class that benefited thereby firmly on the
side of the Reformation!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Maybe how he closed all the monasteries down, and changed people's views on religion (Protestant)Www@QuestionHome@Com