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IB/M/Jun23/E8 7042/2C
A-level
HISTORY
Component 2C The Reformation in Europe, c1500–1564
Friday 9 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
For this paper you must have:
• an AQA 16-page answer book.
Instructions
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen.
• Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is
7042/2C.
• Answer three questions.
In Section A answer Question 01.
In Section B answer two questions.
Information
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80.
• You will be marked on your ability to:
– use good English
– organise information clearly
– use specialist vocabulary where appropriate.
Advice
• You are advised to spend about:
– 1 hour on Question 01 from Section A
– 45 minutes on each of the two questions answered from Section B.
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Section A
Answer Question 01.
Source A
From ‘A Code of Public Behaviour’, 1534. Laws drawn up by the Twelve Elders of
Münster. The Elders became the governing body once the Anabaptists had control of the
city.
Whoever curses God and His Holy Name shall be killed.
No one will curse governmental authority on pain of death.
Whoever does not obey his parents shall die.
Those who commit sexual sins shall die.
Concerning slander, there shall be no slander or flattery among the people.
What the Holy Scriptures command or prohibit is to be accepted by everyone at the pain
of punishment.
What the Elders have found to be good is to be proclaimed and announced by the
prophet John of Leiden as faithful servant of the Most High.
When a stranger who does not adhere to our religion comes to this holy city, he is to be
referred to the sword-bearer Bernhard Knipperdolling so that he can talk to him. This is
not to be done by anyone else.
A baptised Christian is not to speak with any arriving person and is not to eat with him for
they will be suspected of treachery.
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Source B
From ‘A Restoration of Christian Teaching, Faith and Life’, a pamphlet by
Bernhard Rothmann, 1534. Rothmann was a leading Anabaptist in Münster and one of
its key theologians.
God the Almighty began restoring the true faith when he awakened Martin Luther.
However, when Luther would not promote God’s word, preferring to lie in his own pride
and filth, then the Antichrist became evident. The truth had to be revealed by those such
as John of Leiden.
Therefore, adult baptism is restored. The Antichrist began child baptism and made an
idol out of water. True baptism belongs only to those who understand and believe in
God.
Through God, the Church has been restored in Münster. For 1400 years the truth has
been falsified and repressed. The true holy Church cannot be found amongst Catholics
or evangelicals. The latter would have been better to have remained papists rather than
to peddle half-truths, for a half-truth is no truth.
God has restored the true practice of holy matrimony. Freedom in marriage for the man
consists of the possibility for him to have more than one wife. This was true up until the
time of the Apostles.
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Source C
From a Catholic eye-witness report of the torture, confession and execution of
John of Leiden, 25 July 1535. John of Leiden was the Anabaptist leader of the
Münster Rebellion.
John of Leiden was asked whether he wanted to confess his sins to a priest. During his
confession it was reported that he showed extraordinary remorse. He confessed that if
he were executed 10 times over, he had deserved it. Nonetheless he could not be
brought to see his error regarding baptism and the human nature of Christ.
John of Leiden was taken to the place of execution, tied to a stake and tortured with fiery
tongs before being killed, to the obvious pleasure of the priests. Their joy w [Show Less]