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Question

how were catholics in venice different from protestants in england during shakespearian times???
i have been searching everywhere pls does anyone know the answer thankyou
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Answer 1

You are being asked to compare Protestant England with a Catholic country. The differences are clear.

Protestants in Elizabethan times were typically austere, wearing plain clothes and rejecting pleasure. Their worship was simple and done in English. Churches were very plain. England had just gone through a period of political and religious unrest. Elizabeth's sister Mary I had burned protestants as heretics during her reign. Now, as Elizabeth was a protestant queen, Catholics were the ones being oppressed.

Venice was always a Catholic city state. However, it has a long history of religious freedom with no-one being executed for heresy during the 1550's, despite the Pope's orders that heresy should be punished by death. Venice has always had a reputation for loving art, pleasure and partying. The Catholic faith is typically flamboyant with long masses in Latin, numerous saints and richly decorated churches.

Answer 2

im not sure about the difference between venice and england but the main differences between catholics and protestants at the time are:

catholics read services in latin whereas protestants would read in english so that everyone could understand regardless of education (only the wealthy could understand and read or understand in latin at the time)
also the texts would be in latin
Catholic churches were highly decorated and ornate in comparison to plain protestant churches

some websites that might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_and_Protestants_Naturalization_Act_1708

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Pescetti