What is Elizabethan Religious Settlement?
The '''Elizabethan Religious Settlement''' was [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]’s answer to the religious quarrels that developed during the reigns of [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]], [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] and [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. This answer was given in two Acts of the [[Parliament of England]]. The [[Act of Supremacy]] of 1559 [[wikt:confirm|confirmed]] the [[Church of England|English church’s]] [[independence]] from [[Rome]]. The [[Act of Uniformity]] 1559 decided about the form of the English church. Often it was seen as the end of the [[English Reformation]] and the foundation of [[Anglicanism]]. But some historians think that [[England]] only became a [[Protestant]] nation on a popular level many years later. There seem to have been great divisions in the [[population]] and among the [[clergy]] for a long time afterwards. ==Related pages== *[[Church of England]] *[[Reformation]] == Other websites == *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/reformation_debate_02.shtml The Legacy of the Reformation: A New Approach] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121065811/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/reformation_debate_02.shtml |date=2008-01-21 }} *[http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/elizabethanchurch/settlement.html Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), Elizabethan Religious Settlement]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/er80.html Elizabeth's Act of Uniformity (1559)] *[http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/links.html Documents Illustrative of English Church History] [[Category:16th century in England]] [[Category:Protestant Reformation]]