Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Historiography
(Edward's
reign)
- Government
- Jordan: 'Few monarchies in
history have been as well
equipped for their task as
was Edward VI'
- Penry
Williams:
Edward was 'a
cypher in
politics'
- Hoak:
Northumberland's
political 'genius'
was to see that
his political
survival and his
continued
dominance
depended on his
control of the
Council
- Northumberland's
reform of Privy
Council procedures
marked 'revival' of
government by the
Council (Hoak)
- Social policies
- Bush: Somerset's social programme was not particularly
advanced and 'was in keeping with the age'
- The Vagrancy Act was a
unpopular law that involved 'a
savage attack on vagrants
looking for work' - Heard
- Religion
- Loades: the Chantries Act
was more significant as a
gesture of reform than it was
as an act of plunder
- With the advent of the
second Prayer Book
the worship of the
English Church could
be described as fully
reformed (Loades)
- Hutton: the
new service
was
introduced in
every parish
in the sample
within the
prescribed
period of
1552-3
- Jordan:
ending the
prayers for the
dead was
'probably the
most
shattering and
irreversible
action of the
Reformation in
England
- Guy: Northumberland's
religious position was an
'enigma' (Tudor England).
Northumblerland may have
been influenced by 'public
order considerations' as
Protestantism more
naturally lent itself to social
control
- Cranmer's significance, according to Loades, was 'not because
he was a saint, or a great theologian, but because he was able to
take the unique ecclesiastical polity devised in England between
1530-40, to develop it and make it work