Using These Four Passages and Our on Knowledge, Assess the View That the Roman Catholics Were a Serious Threat to Elizabeth I and the Church She Had Established.
Using These four passages and our on knowledge, assess the view that the Roman Catholics were a serious threat to Elizabeth I and the church she had established.
Elizabeth had inherited the throne of England in 1558 from a Catholic queen Mary who had attempted to re-convert England back to Catholicism and to allow the country to take part in the Catholic reformation of Europe. The accession of Elizabeth was met with anxiety and tension as to discover what she was to do in response to religion and how the Catholic powers of Europe as well as the Catholics within England at the time would treat any changes. The immediate rise to power was met with little hostility as Elizabeth had made very cautious changes to start with as she thought it wise not to provoke hostility from abroad considering the position of England at the time as a small, weak protestant nation. The start of Elizabeth’s reign was fairly peaceful however tensions rose and a Catholic threat seemed more imminent as her reign drew to the end. In order to find out if the Roman Catholics were in fact a serious threat to Elizabeth and her church the essay must be split down into two main sub-sections, one to discover whether Catholics were a threat to Elizabeth herself and the other to decide whether they were a prominent threat to Elizabeth’s Church, however there is a very fine difference between the two as the majority of the rule of Elizabeth and her threats such as that from Spain were dominated by religion. The four sources in question all debate the extent of the opposition that the Roman Catholics actually provided against Elizabeth I. The majority of the sources go into more detail about the strength of the opposition to the church rather than that to Elizabeth herself, however by looking at the sources and by comparing them to other information that I have studied I have been able to gain a good understanding of the opposition that the Elizabeth faced throughout her reign. Source B argues
Elizabeth had inherited the throne of England in 1558 from a Catholic queen Mary who had attempted to re-convert England back to Catholicism and to allow the country to take part in the Catholic reformation of Europe. The accession of Elizabeth was met with anxiety and tension as to discover what she was to do in response to religion and how the Catholic powers of Europe as well as the Catholics within England at the time would treat any changes. The immediate rise to power was met with little hostility as Elizabeth had made very cautious changes to start with as she thought it wise not to provoke hostility from abroad considering the position of England at the time as a small, weak protestant nation. The start of Elizabeth’s reign was fairly peaceful however tensions rose and a Catholic threat seemed more imminent as her reign drew to the end. In order to find out if the Roman Catholics were in fact a serious threat to Elizabeth and her church the essay must be split down into two main sub-sections, one to discover whether Catholics were a threat to Elizabeth herself and the other to decide whether they were a prominent threat to Elizabeth’s Church, however there is a very fine difference between the two as the majority of the rule of Elizabeth and her threats such as that from Spain were dominated by religion. The four sources in question all debate the extent of the opposition that the Roman Catholics actually provided against Elizabeth I. The majority of the sources go into more detail about the strength of the opposition to the church rather than that to Elizabeth herself, however by looking at the sources and by comparing them to other information that I have studied I have been able to gain a good understanding of the opposition that the Elizabeth faced throughout her reign. Source B argues