Reacting to the Past in the Premodern Classroom.

EDUCATIONAL games; REIGN of Henry VIII, England, 1509-1547; ENGLISH Reformation; HISTORY of humanism; RENAISSANCE; CHURCH & state; CHURCH of England -- Establishment & disestablishment; ROYAL supremacy (Church of England); SIXTEENTH century; UNIVERSITIES & colleges; HISTORY

This article is part of a special section arising from the August 2016 panel entitled “New Technologies and Methods in the Classroom," at the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference. It talks about using a role-playing game Reacting to the Past -- the Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament of 1529-1536, by Patrick Coby, which explores topics including Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, sovereignty of a nation-state, and the supremacy of England's monarchy over the Pope and church.