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MID TUDOR CRISIS - Coggle Diagram
MID TUDOR CRISIS
YES CRISIS
Boy king, then queen diminished royal authority and political stability
Bad harvests coincided with inflation to cause great social strife - perhaps rebelled due to lack of political authority and competence
widespread rebellion in 1549 demonstrated the universality of the issues, could have easily overrun the nation
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NO CRISIS
dearth and inflation were much worse in 1590s, bad harvests and social issues were themes running through entire Tudor century
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dynasty continued with public support, central government never collapsed
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MARY REIGN CONCLUSION
By end of Mary’s reign, her failure to produce an heir and the failures of the war in France had made her very unpopular. Although she managed to invoke considerable catholic reform, the Pope’s announcement of Pole as a heretic and his absence as the head of the Church in England made the state of religious ambiguous and unsatisfying for Protestants and Catholics alike.
Her vicious burning of Protestant ‘heretics’ also left her legacy in the hands of none-too-sympathetic Protestant historians in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods that followed
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