History A-Level
Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement
What Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement
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Elizabeth's settlement was deliberately broad, so puritanism grew among those wanting further reform of vestments, ceremonies and preaching, with significance in pressure for godly discipline, parliamentary and clerical networks, and tensions with the crown.
Topics that use Puritan pressure and Elizabethan settlement
- Religious changes, 1509–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Popular response to religious change
- Protestant and Catholic reform
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- Regional variation and local patronage
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