All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Catholic plots - ✔✔✔-- peace can be questioned
- 1571: Ridolfi / 1585: parry / 1586: Babington /1583: Throckmorton = bond of association
- John Bossy: genuine conspiracy which seriously threatened Elizabeth's regime
- Christopher Haigh: 'panic response to exaggerated threat = lack confidence formal gov + public
order
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Elizabeth was reluctant to commission new buildings - not HER golden age - ✔✔✔--
Courtiers + wealthy individuals made up for this lack
- Often able to afford extravagant projects / family acquisitions of former monastic lands =
cheap
- Still happened and led to: Eng. = Rob Smythson: Longleat Hall / Wollaton hall / country house
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: General poverty and living standards - ✔✔✔-- Cloth industry = major problems linked
w. inflation - rise prices in 1540s / changing supply of money
- Paul Slack: 'there is no doubt that the standard of living declined'
- A.L. Beier: half of Tudor population unable to support themselves
- By end of reign central gov. had accepted responsibility of providing minimum subsistence
- Although reign saw periods of great food shortages there were no major disturbances
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Music - ✔✔✔-- used to hold up Gloriana myth = Elizabeth losing power
- 1602: Thomas Morley put together collection of 25 madrigals by 23 different composers
- 'The Triumph of Gloriana' honoured E. + reinforce Gloriana myth - sustain support when
slipping
,All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
- Elizabeth: skilful musician / responsible for saving music culture of England cathedrals
+Oxbridge
- Threatened by Protestant reformers: emphasised word of God > beauty of holiness'
- Shows how sometimes growth may have been held back due to religion
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Essay Overview - ✔✔✔-INTRODUCTION
- Golden age: during this era England experienced peace and prosperity while the arts
flourished
- Arts flourish / peace and prosperity? can be debated - unrests present - catholic plots to
remove her
- Even though peaceful succession to James IV her reign cannot be seen as a Golden age -
partially valid
EVIDENCE FOR
- Growth of universities / schools / literature levels
- Literature - theatres
- Growth in Poor Laws - people could enjoy change
EVIDENCE AGAINST
- Music - used to hold up Gloriana myth = Elizabeth losing power
- Elizabeth was reluctant to commission new buildings - not HER golden age
- Catholic plots - peace can be questioned
- General poverty and living standards
CONCLUSION
- Strides were made thanks to factors such as earl social development / renaissance / patronage
,All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
- Not exaggerated - wasn't Elizabeth who presided this - patronage from courtiers +wealthy
individuals
- Partially valid view as although it does lead to James IV it was not a s glossy as golden age
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: - Growth of universities / schools / literature levels - ✔✔✔-- European renaissance - the
new learning helped increase the levels of literacy
- Books and literacy rates rose = statistics!
- Grammar schools e.g. Stockport Grammar - aided by royal and aristocratic patronages
- University level education was given at Oxford / Cambridge / Inns of court London
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: Growth in Poor Laws - people could enjoy change - ✔✔✔-- Act of 1572: established
principle that local gov required to pay a rate for relief of their own poor
- Poor Act of 1576: First act to attempt to create national system of relief - finance + admin.
locally
- Act in 1601: parish was to appoint an overseer of the poor
Ensure both efficient collection of rates + appr. distribution of relief to poor
- Intact for almost 250 years - measure of their success
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: Literature - theatres - ✔✔✔-- Increased educational opportunities - highly literate and
sophisticated viewing and reading public
- Companies of actors operated under the patronage of courtiers e.g. Shakespeare L.C of Men
- Competitive market which placed emphasis on new lays to appeal a wide range of classes
- Some plays could have direct political connotations = Richard III - symbolised Elizabeth
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
, All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
Not Disaster: Intervention in France 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- Long run: advantageous - expensive to
maintain / too tempting to use it as a start point of invasion
- Met her f.p. aim / she did not want prestige like H8 but security like H7
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
Disaster: Intervention in France 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- March 1562: conflict broke out between
Catholics and Protestant in France
- Dudley - Elizabeth to put military pressures on F. crown when relatively weak state = return of
Calais
E. promised Huguenot leader: Prince of Conde / 6000 men / £30,000 loan / control of Le Havre
- Huguenot army was defeated + Conde was captured / Duke of Guise assassinated
- Both sides leaderless - F. factions agreed to accept peace terms + united to drive the E. off Le
Havre
- 1564: Treaty of Troyes - unfavourable- lost Calais permanently / more cautious to support
Protestantism
- Lost indemnity secured at Cateau-Cambresis April 1559 = Blow to prestige: significant
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
Disaster: Intervention in Scotland 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- Cecil wanted action NOT Elizabeth and
external factors caused triumph
- Resignation threat - decision making in f.p could be influenced by both religious consid. + a key
indiv.
- End of December 1559 navy sent to Firth of Forth: stop French enforcements from landing
- Feb 1590: Lords of congregation support at Treaty of Berwick / March 1590: army sent north
but siege failed
- July 1590: Treaty of Edinburgh - sides withdraw troops / Mary + Francis surrendered claim to
throne
- Mary never signed it = / at Paris ushers at court proclaimed 'make way for the queen of
England
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Catholic plots - ✔✔✔-- peace can be questioned
- 1571: Ridolfi / 1585: parry / 1586: Babington /1583: Throckmorton = bond of association
- John Bossy: genuine conspiracy which seriously threatened Elizabeth's regime
- Christopher Haigh: 'panic response to exaggerated threat = lack confidence formal gov + public
order
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Elizabeth was reluctant to commission new buildings - not HER golden age - ✔✔✔--
Courtiers + wealthy individuals made up for this lack
- Often able to afford extravagant projects / family acquisitions of former monastic lands =
cheap
- Still happened and led to: Eng. = Rob Smythson: Longleat Hall / Wollaton hall / country house
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: General poverty and living standards - ✔✔✔-- Cloth industry = major problems linked
w. inflation - rise prices in 1540s / changing supply of money
- Paul Slack: 'there is no doubt that the standard of living declined'
- A.L. Beier: half of Tudor population unable to support themselves
- By end of reign central gov. had accepted responsibility of providing minimum subsistence
- Although reign saw periods of great food shortages there were no major disturbances
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Against: Music - ✔✔✔-- used to hold up Gloriana myth = Elizabeth losing power
- 1602: Thomas Morley put together collection of 25 madrigals by 23 different composers
- 'The Triumph of Gloriana' honoured E. + reinforce Gloriana myth - sustain support when
slipping
,All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
- Elizabeth: skilful musician / responsible for saving music culture of England cathedrals
+Oxbridge
- Threatened by Protestant reformers: emphasised word of God > beauty of holiness'
- Shows how sometimes growth may have been held back due to religion
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
Essay Overview - ✔✔✔-INTRODUCTION
- Golden age: during this era England experienced peace and prosperity while the arts
flourished
- Arts flourish / peace and prosperity? can be debated - unrests present - catholic plots to
remove her
- Even though peaceful succession to James IV her reign cannot be seen as a Golden age -
partially valid
EVIDENCE FOR
- Growth of universities / schools / literature levels
- Literature - theatres
- Growth in Poor Laws - people could enjoy change
EVIDENCE AGAINST
- Music - used to hold up Gloriana myth = Elizabeth losing power
- Elizabeth was reluctant to commission new buildings - not HER golden age
- Catholic plots - peace can be questioned
- General poverty and living standards
CONCLUSION
- Strides were made thanks to factors such as earl social development / renaissance / patronage
,All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
- Not exaggerated - wasn't Elizabeth who presided this - patronage from courtiers +wealthy
individuals
- Partially valid view as although it does lead to James IV it was not a s glossy as golden age
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: - Growth of universities / schools / literature levels - ✔✔✔-- European renaissance - the
new learning helped increase the levels of literacy
- Books and literacy rates rose = statistics!
- Grammar schools e.g. Stockport Grammar - aided by royal and aristocratic patronages
- University level education was given at Oxford / Cambridge / Inns of court London
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: Growth in Poor Laws - people could enjoy change - ✔✔✔-- Act of 1572: established
principle that local gov required to pay a rate for relief of their own poor
- Poor Act of 1576: First act to attempt to create national system of relief - finance + admin.
locally
- Act in 1601: parish was to appoint an overseer of the poor
Ensure both efficient collection of rates + appr. distribution of relief to poor
- Intact for almost 250 years - measure of their success
'ELIZABETH PRESIDED OVER A 'GOLDEN AGE' FOR THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND'.
For: Literature - theatres - ✔✔✔-- Increased educational opportunities - highly literate and
sophisticated viewing and reading public
- Companies of actors operated under the patronage of courtiers e.g. Shakespeare L.C of Men
- Competitive market which placed emphasis on new lays to appeal a wide range of classes
- Some plays could have direct political connotations = Richard III - symbolised Elizabeth
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
, All Elizabeth Eassy Plans Exam with Questions and Answers – 100% Solved
Not Disaster: Intervention in France 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- Long run: advantageous - expensive to
maintain / too tempting to use it as a start point of invasion
- Met her f.p. aim / she did not want prestige like H8 but security like H7
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
Disaster: Intervention in France 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- March 1562: conflict broke out between
Catholics and Protestant in France
- Dudley - Elizabeth to put military pressures on F. crown when relatively weak state = return of
Calais
E. promised Huguenot leader: Prince of Conde / 6000 men / £30,000 loan / control of Le Havre
- Huguenot army was defeated + Conde was captured / Duke of Guise assassinated
- Both sides leaderless - F. factions agreed to accept peace terms + united to drive the E. off Le
Havre
- 1564: Treaty of Troyes - unfavourable- lost Calais permanently / more cautious to support
Protestantism
- Lost indemnity secured at Cateau-Cambresis April 1559 = Blow to prestige: significant
'ELIZABETH'S FOREIGN POLICY WAS MOSTLY A SERIES OF DISASTERS.'
Disaster: Intervention in Scotland 1558-64 - ✔✔✔-- Cecil wanted action NOT Elizabeth and
external factors caused triumph
- Resignation threat - decision making in f.p could be influenced by both religious consid. + a key
indiv.
- End of December 1559 navy sent to Firth of Forth: stop French enforcements from landing
- Feb 1590: Lords of congregation support at Treaty of Berwick / March 1590: army sent north
but siege failed
- July 1590: Treaty of Edinburgh - sides withdraw troops / Mary + Francis surrendered claim to
throne
- Mary never signed it = / at Paris ushers at court proclaimed 'make way for the queen of
England
