1.2. Timeline/summary of A Protestant Nation
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- 1.2. Timeline/summary of A Protestant Nation
- 1. Elizabeth.
- Protestant
- Rules for 45 years
- Followed on from ardent Catholic, Mary
- Managed the legacy of Catholicism (main challenge)
- Many people still alive who would have remembered a country shaped by Catholicism
- 1530s Reformation within living memory
- International threats/domestic plots against Elizabeth
- Being at war with Spain
- 2. James I & VI
- Experienced King of Scotland
- Start of Stuart dynasty
- Smoother transition
- A Scottish, Protestant King (union of England and Scotland) - important a Protestant inherited country
- Balancing puritans and Catholics
- Subjects don't remember Catholic England when he comes to throne - England been Protestant for a few decades now
- Growth in popular politics
- Part of changes in culture
- Brings England and Scotland together in a permanent manner
- 3. Charles I
- Comes to thrown in 1625
- Smooth succession - clear he would succeed James I, he was Prince of Wales
- Anti-puritanism
- Re-evaluation English Protestantism
- Laudianism
- Named after Arch-Bishop William Laud
- Distinctive way of English people looking at their past
- First time people look at Reformation as historical event
- Lead-up to Civil War
- 1. Elizabeth.
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