Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
The mid-Tudor period for a long time has been portrayed as a period of
trouble and turbulence that was of little historical significance. The rulers and
intellectuals of the period were cast as fanatical, intolerant religious bigots whose
actions at best delayed the progress of English government. Actually the opposite
is true. After the death of Edward VI, a group of evangelicals fled the restoration
of Roman jurisdiction by Mary I. These English Protestants are known as the
Marian exiles and they fashioned some radical political ideas to support a
traditional, albeit evangelical political culture. They did this by trying to find a
Biblical justification to oppose the Catholic restoration of Mary and return
England to the godly church and state of Edward VI. Looking to restore the
reformed church, they inadvertently legitimized what had before been seen as
sedition into the modern idea of revolution.
trouble and turbulence that was of little historical significance. The rulers and
intellectuals of the period were cast as fanatical, intolerant religious bigots whose
actions at best delayed the progress of English government. Actually the opposite
is true. After the death of Edward VI, a group of evangelicals fled the restoration
of Roman jurisdiction by Mary I. These English Protestants are known as the
Marian exiles and they fashioned some radical political ideas to support a
traditional, albeit evangelical political culture. They did this by trying to find a
Biblical justification to oppose the Catholic restoration of Mary and return
England to the godly church and state of Edward VI. Looking to restore the
reformed church, they inadvertently legitimized what had before been seen as
sedition into the modern idea of revolution.
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