Historiography: EI

Question 0

Parliament:
Tudor despotism: 'rubber stamp'
Gradually evolved; maturity under EI
Increasingly assertive body, continual opposition
Dominated by queen-in-council
Important but irregular

Answer 0

Parliament:
J. Lingard
A.F. Pollard
John Neale

Geoffrey Elton
Michael Graves

Question 1

The Privy Council:

‘Unity’ and ‘cohesion’ emphasised

Answer 1

The Privy Council:

Stephen Alford

Question 2

The Religious Settlement, 1558:

Traditional: conservative queen pushed by radical ‘Puritan choir’
Revisionist: firm Protestant settlement always intended

Answer 2

The Religious Settlement, 1558:

John Neale

Winthrop Hudson

Question 3

The Puritans:
Real genuine threat
Classical Presbyterianism threat
Threat fabricated/ exaggerated by EI
Puritans too divided to reach aim
Exaggerated threat

Answer 3

The Puritans:
J.R. Green
Geoffrey Elton
Johnson
P Lake
John Guy

Question 4

The Catholics:
Discontinuity thesis: Catholicism fading and saved by seminary priests
Continuity thesis: committed clergy
Seminary priests limited to South-East
Survival owed to Henrician and Marian survival

Answer 4

The Catholics:
John Bossy

Susan Doran
Christopher Haigh
John Guy

Question 5

Foreign Policy:
Glorified: Spanish Armada, 1588
No foreign policy: haphazard, obstinate
Foreign policy driven by religion 
Always defensive
At times merely reactive but still at times successful

Answer 5

Foreign Policy:
Traditional propaganda
C. Wilson
D.J.B. Trim
David Loades
Susan Doran

Question 6

Foreign Policy: councillors:
Influence of Walshingham’s Protestantism and Cecil’s pragmatism

Secular pragmatism of Walshingham and Protestant outlook of Cecil

Contradictory advice confused policy

Strong EI ruled over council

Answer 6

Foreign Policy: councillors:
Conyers Read

Stephen Alford

Susan Doran

P. Williams