1. What was the Elizabethan Religion : where was Elizabeth at?
Religious Settlement?
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
“The living symbol of her father’s break with Rome, she had never been recognised as legitimate by the Catholic Church. Moreover, she believed firmly that she was the rightful ruler of all England, including its Church, and no Pope could agree with that.”
Christopher Haigh
Religion : where was Elizabeth at?
P.153 SHP

2. What was the Elizabethan
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
What was the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement?
Martin Luther
Urlich Zwingli
John Calvin
Desiderus Erasmus
All four men were leading Protestants, Puritans or Humanists in the 16th century.
Elizabeth had to decide how ‘Protestant’ her Religious Settlement should be. She looked at the religious beliefs of Protestantism but remember she was fundamentally a politique so all decisions she made – even about her Act of Uniformity – was hugely influenced by political outcomes, far more so than religious fervour.

3. What was the Elizabethan
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
What was the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement?
Martin Luther
Urlich Zwingli
John Calvin
Desiderus Erasmus

4. What was the Elizabethan The Religious Settlement
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
What was the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement?
The Religious Settlement
Act of Supremacy in 1559
Act of Uniformity in 1559
‘Politique’
Prerogatives:
Religion
Foreign Policy
Marriage and succession
Finance/economy
Taxation
Government officials
P.156 SHP

5. What was the Elizabethan Religious Settlement?
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
What was the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement?
BUT what problems did people have with the RS?
Criticising the Religious Settlement:
Why might Protestants have seen the Religious Settlement as inadequate? P.55 (Nelson Thornes)
How did the 1559 Royal Injunctions ‘Protestantise’ the Religious Settlement? (P.56 Nelson Thornes)
Key words:
Eucharist
Transubstantiation
Consubstantiation
P.55 and 56 of Nelson Thornes

6. What was the Elizabethan
To describe the religious options open to Elizabeth.
To explain what the Religious Settlement meant for contemporaries.
To assess the historical interpretations surrounding the Religious Settlement.
What was the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement?
Historical schools of thought about the passage of the Religious Settlement
Revisionist view
(Neale)
Post Revisionnist
view
P.157 SHP

7. How far do you agree with this statement?
‘Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement was dictated by the House of Commons.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
‘Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement was dictated by the House of Commons.’
How far do you agree with this statement?
Introduction – what the Religious Settlement was, what Elizabeth’s opinion personally and as a monarch was about religion in 1558, and an outline of the historical debate surrounding the passing of the Religious Settlement in 1559.
Agreement with the statement
Include explicit reference to the school of thought which agrees with the statement
Disagreement with the statement
Include explicit reference to the school of thought which disagrees with the statement
Overall conclusion – sum up the main argument and reach a judgement about the strongest school of thought
Introduction – what the Religious Settlement was, what Elizabeth’s opinion personally and as a monarch was about religion in 1558, and an outline of the historical debate surrounding the passing of the Religious Settlement in 1559.
Agreement with the statement
Include explicit reference to the school of thought which agrees with the statement
Disagreement with the statement
Include explicit reference to the school of thought which disagrees with the statement
Overall conclusion – sum up the main argument and reach a judgement about the strongest school of thought

8. What problems did the Elizabethan Religious Settlement cause?
To explain what Protestants believed were problems with the Religious Settlement.
To assess how serious these problems were for Elizabeth.
CONVOCATION – what is it?
Matthew Parker
Archbishop of Canterbury
Edmund Grindal
Archbishop of Canterbury
John Whitgift
Archbishop of Canterbury

9. * To explain what Protestants believed were problems with the Religious Settlement.
* To assess how serious these problems were for Elizabeth.
What problems did the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement cause?
What did the Religious Settlement state?
What did Elizabeth also introduce by 1563?
What problems did the Religious Settlement SOLVE by 1563?
By 1563, was the Church of England more conservative than Elizabeth would have wished?

10. How big a problem was each one?
* To explain what Protestants believed were problems with the Religious Settlement.
* To assess how serious these problems were for Elizabeth.
What problems did the Elizabethan
Religious Settlement cause?
For each of the following, decide what happened/what the issue was and why it can be argued that it was a problem caused by the Religious Settlement.
Quality of the clergy
Confusion over doctrine (39 Articles)
Marian exiles (The Advertisements)
Catholic concern over ‘Supreme Governor’
Vestments Controversy
How big a problem was each one?