HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Political Warfare, Dutch Resistance, Anglicanism
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Form of political warfare that you might not think of the catholic powers efforts to sustain catholicism in england, effort of english state to control catholicism and convert catholics into anglicans. From our perspective, for gov to attempt to control or eliminate a religion seems a bad thing. But in this period of the 1500s, the religion you choose has a direct political impact. States as a general rule say that people can only practice the religion of the state itself. Struggle between spain & the vatican against the english state. In middle 1500s, england becomes dominated by people who want to maintain the anglican faith, against majority catholic population. Elizabeth attempts to be as tolerant towards individual catholics as she can while still coaxing them to abandon catholicism and join the anglican faith. Elizabeth aims to contain catholics politically while still allowing some freedom.