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Elizabeth, Edification, and the Latin Prayer Book of 1560

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Norman L. Jones
Norman L. Jones
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Mr. Jones is assistant professor of history in Utah State University, Logan, Utah
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Over the past few years a spate of books and articles have forced scholars to reject the idea that the Anglican church was created as a compromise between Queen Elizabeth, who would have preferred to return to Henrician Catholicism, and radical Protestants, who wished to create in England a godly society modeled on the Swiss Reformation. This historiographic revolution has been led by historians who have challenged J. E. Neale's tale of a Puritan opposition party which was born in 1559 and bedeviled the queen for her entire reign. Demonstrating that the queen achieved the religious settlement she desired in 1559, they have forced us to question anew Elizabeth's attitude toward her church and to challenge some of the assumptions upon which ecclesiastical historians, following Neale, have built their histories of the Elizabethan church.

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Church History , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1984 , pp. 174 - 186
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1984

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Research for this article was supported in part by a Mellon Faculty Fellowship at Harvard University, 1982–1983.

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