22. Mary- Overal impact

Question 1

explain Mary’s reputation?

Answer 1

• credited with reviving Englands’ great military and navy= Elizabeth was able to counter the spanish
• often labelled as a failure
• true that protestants were burned, but more were killed under Cromwell

Question 2

what extent was there a mid-tudor crisis?

Answer 2

• more contemporary historians pay small attention to the ‘little tudors’ (ed/mary) as their reigns were short and had few achievements
• Mary’s reign often dismissed as disastrous with an unsuitable marriage, losing calais and wrecking the protestant reformation
• modern historians have more positive things to say,= government was never in a serious danger of collapse, reforms credited to Elizabeth were foreshadowed by North and Mary