Elizabethan England

Elizabethan England Overview -

Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, became queen of England and Ireland on the17th November 1558 at age 25. However her position of power was doubted due to several religious and diplomatic changes in England and the world during the 16th and 17th century. Unlike in the modern day, the monarchs of the 16th century had all of a nations power, therefore she surrounded herself with a loyal group of advisors known as The Pivy Council. Elizabeth was very authoritarian over her parliament however they gained more power at times of her troubles with monopoly licences, religion and marriage. Religion in the 16th century was on every monarchs mind as to which their nation would follow, in England however with many prior monarchs being conflicted between catholicism and protestantism, Elizabeth chose to end this period of interchanging between the two denominations, known as the reformation, by making the national religion protestantism but allowing some catholic traditions to be practiced. While this satisfied the majority of catholics and protestants, the extremists of each sides (Opus Dei and the Putriants) were only happy with their own denomination being in power and no acception of the other. This new acceptance of catholicism and protestantism was carried out with the Act Of Supremacy 1559 and the Act Of Uniformity. 

Economy - 

The Elizabethans believed that God had set out an order for everything, known as the Great Chain of Being. This also included the order of society and your place in it. The queen was at the top and controlled wealth and life chances, and inequalities further down the chain were accepted.

Rebellions - 

Elizabeth faced many foreign challenges during her reign aswell as domestic ones. Catholics up and down the nation wanted her off the throne so she could  e replaced by a more catholic and more legitamite ruler, Mary Queen Of Scots. This sparked many rebellions such as The…