Age of Absolutism 2: Tudor England, 1485-1603
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Elizabeth, the Queen of England, Is a Kind of Weird Hybrid Compromise, Right?
The church would be governed episcopally with a hierarchy of bishops, led ultimately by the archbishop of canterbury. Elizabeth is able to kind of hold together this rough consensus under what we call the elizabethan settlement. There are still some catholics, and catholicism is eventually banned and becomes an underground faith. So there is a continuing catholic party that might have constituted around ten % or so of the population. And at the other end, there are also some puritans, who are protestant, who believe it has not been thoroughly reformed enough. She managed to hold a sort of broad middle that most of the people in england could accept.
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