Elizabeth: Historiography
GUY: Elizabeth “controlled her policy more than any other Tudor”
GUY: “she knew her mind; her instinct to power was infallible”
BINDOFF: “politically genius”
A.G.R. SMITH: “the council was rent by politics”
GUY: the council “got things done”
WILLIAMS: “the final decisions rested with the Queen… who might easily ignore their (the privy council’s) decisions”
HAIGH: “Elizabeth was a bully”
GUY: “the post-1596 period had a strong factional element”
HAIGH: “Shut up. Pay up. Pack up.” Elizabeth’s attitude to Parliament.
GRAVES: “Lords and Commons were willing and able to challenge both the Queen and each other”
HAIGH: “politically bankrupt” in the last years of her reign
GUY: “the episode caused Elizabeth to burn her fingers” (support of the Huguenots in 1562)
ADAMS: “war broke out… because Elizabeth and Philip both lost their nerve”
MCGURK: “a convinced moderate Protestant”
POLLARD: “indifferent in religion”
J.R. GREEN: she saw religion in “a purely political light”
COLLINSON: “The Elizabethan compromise of Protestantism was concession not only to the conservative prejudices of Elizabeth’s subjects but to her own feelings”
LEE: Elizabeth “was in firm control of the whole process and acted deliberately to redraw the balance” (Religious Settlement)
LEE: “pulled Protestants and Catholics into a new balance least likely to threaten the political security of England.”
NEALE: “puritan choir”
W.L. SHEILS: “The settlement did not result from compromise with any one group, but was a delicate operation to balance a variety of forces”
MACCULLOCH: “an operation planned with great skill for the Queen by Cecil”
LEE: “there was something in the settlement and its follow-up to satisfy – and irritate – all religious groups”
ELTON: “it was a serious mistake to make” (to appoint Grindall as Archbishop)
BOSSY: the Throckmorton plot was “a fairly near thing” and a “genuine threat”
ELTON: “the number of English Catholics did not increase” due to the seminary priests
GUY: “most lay Catholics were not seriously threatened” by the Anti-Catholic legislation
DORAN: “The danger from the English Catholics was exaggerated”
MERVYN: “Elizabeth herself made Puritanism more of a danger than it really was”
FLETCHER: The Northern Rebellion “resentment at the extension of Tudor authority in the North”
GUY: The Mid-1590s witnessed “turmoil”
GUY: Essex’s Rebellion was a “fiasco”
WILLIAMS: “the visible tip of a larger reign of discontent”
GUY: “she knew her mind; her instinct to power was infallible”
BINDOFF: “politically genius”
A.G.R. SMITH: “the council was rent by politics”
GUY: the council “got things done”
WILLIAMS: “the final decisions rested with the Queen… who might easily ignore their (the privy council’s) decisions”
HAIGH: “Elizabeth was a bully”
GUY: “the post-1596 period had a strong factional element”
HAIGH: “Shut up. Pay up. Pack up.” Elizabeth’s attitude to Parliament.
GRAVES: “Lords and Commons were willing and able to challenge both the Queen and each other”
HAIGH: “politically bankrupt” in the last years of her reign
GUY: “the episode caused Elizabeth to burn her fingers” (support of the Huguenots in 1562)
ADAMS: “war broke out… because Elizabeth and Philip both lost their nerve”
MCGURK: “a convinced moderate Protestant”
POLLARD: “indifferent in religion”
J.R. GREEN: she saw religion in “a purely political light”
COLLINSON: “The Elizabethan compromise of Protestantism was concession not only to the conservative prejudices of Elizabeth’s subjects but to her own feelings”
LEE: Elizabeth “was in firm control of the whole process and acted deliberately to redraw the balance” (Religious Settlement)
LEE: “pulled Protestants and Catholics into a new balance least likely to threaten the political security of England.”
NEALE: “puritan choir”
W.L. SHEILS: “The settlement did not result from compromise with any one group, but was a delicate operation to balance a variety of forces”
MACCULLOCH: “an operation planned with great skill for the Queen by Cecil”
LEE: “there was something in the settlement and its follow-up to satisfy – and irritate – all religious groups”
ELTON: “it was a serious mistake to make” (to appoint Grindall as Archbishop)
BOSSY: the Throckmorton plot was “a fairly near thing” and a “genuine threat”
ELTON: “the number of English Catholics did not increase” due to the seminary priests
GUY: “most lay Catholics were not seriously threatened” by the Anti-Catholic legislation
DORAN: “The danger from the English Catholics was exaggerated”
MERVYN: “Elizabeth herself made Puritanism more of a danger than it really was”
FLETCHER: The Northern Rebellion “resentment at the extension of Tudor authority in the North”
GUY: The Mid-1590s witnessed “turmoil”
GUY: Essex’s Rebellion was a “fiasco”
WILLIAMS: “the visible tip of a larger reign of discontent”