T8 key historians and quotes

Rex - royal supremacy

‘most Johnians accepted the royal supremacy. However, many of them baulked at Protestantism’

Marshall - monarchical loyalty

IDEA that people followed the bureaucratic direction more out of loyalty to the ruler than genuine shifts in belief

Francis Bacon - religious beliefs of Elizabeth I

‘misliked to make windows into men’s hearts and secret thoughts’

Collinson - Puritans

‘the hotter sort of Protestants’

Coffey - schism & sedition

‘because church and nation were so intertwined, schism was automatically identified with sedition’

Toleration Act - actual title

‘An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws’

Sirota - toleration

‘state non-interference… was not to be construed as state neutrality’

Ryrie - Henrician idolatry

‘the regime’s suspicion of images gave a rare shot of legitimacy to radical reformers’

Duffy - popular Protestantism

IDEA that there was a growing disinterest among the laity because literacy limited it to upper classes

Ryrie - puritan emotions

‘Christians could hardly shun the emotions… for that way led the terrible spiritual death which was described variously as coldness, dryness, dullness, hardness or deadness’

Duffy - puritan morality

IDEA that hyperfocus could become almost Pelagian in nature

Walsham - providence

‘providence was part of the mental furniture of the early modern mind’

McClain - Catholic worship

‘God was not so bound by his sacraments that he could not deliver his grace without them’

1 Corinthians - female role

‘Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak’

Crawford - Charles I marriage

‘the marriage of Charles I to a Catholic wife was one prominent case where contemporaries thought that the King’s insistence on more wifely obedience would further the cause of the true Protestant religion’

Collinson - religious education

‘Good behaviour could never save a child. But it might provide precious empirical evidence… of the child’s election into the Lamb’s Book of Life’