Mary: Historiography
C.S.L. DAVIES: Mary’s accession was “the only successful rebellion in Tudor England”
A.F. POLLARD: “sterility was the conclusive not of Mary’s reign”
BINDOFF: “politically bankrupt”
STARKEY: “it was legality, legitimacy and the sense that she was Henry VIII’s daughter which won the day for Mary”
HEARD: government was “fundamentally unchanged”
TITTLER: “strengthened the concept of conciliar committees”
MURPHY: “cooperation rather than conflict” in Parliament
SMITH: Marian financial reforms “were fundamental for Elizabeth’s solvency and thus for Elizabethan achievement as a whole.”
C.E.CHALIS: “Elizabeth could never have tackled the problem of coinage as quickly or easily as she did.”
PENDRILL: “The problem with the marriage was not that it happened but that it produced no heirs.”
GUY: “it was more than bad luck” (the loss of Calais)
HEARD: “Mary’s stubbornness and her almost total reliance on her Spanish advisers made England’s military debacle between 1557 and 1558 almost inevitable”
ROGERSON: “the loss of Calais was significant but her reign should not be condemned just because of this one event”
LOADES: “Protestantism gained more than it lost by being subjected to persecution”
TURVEY AND HEARD: Wyatt’s Rebellion “came as close as any to overthrowing the monarchy”
A.F. POLLARD: “sterility was the conclusive not of Mary’s reign”
BINDOFF: “politically bankrupt”
STARKEY: “it was legality, legitimacy and the sense that she was Henry VIII’s daughter which won the day for Mary”
HEARD: government was “fundamentally unchanged”
TITTLER: “strengthened the concept of conciliar committees”
MURPHY: “cooperation rather than conflict” in Parliament
SMITH: Marian financial reforms “were fundamental for Elizabeth’s solvency and thus for Elizabethan achievement as a whole.”
C.E.CHALIS: “Elizabeth could never have tackled the problem of coinage as quickly or easily as she did.”
PENDRILL: “The problem with the marriage was not that it happened but that it produced no heirs.”
GUY: “it was more than bad luck” (the loss of Calais)
HEARD: “Mary’s stubbornness and her almost total reliance on her Spanish advisers made England’s military debacle between 1557 and 1558 almost inevitable”
ROGERSON: “the loss of Calais was significant but her reign should not be condemned just because of this one event”
LOADES: “Protestantism gained more than it lost by being subjected to persecution”
TURVEY AND HEARD: Wyatt’s Rebellion “came as close as any to overthrowing the monarchy”