Why is the Elizabethan age often referred to as the greatest in English History?
In an attempt to be fair and impartial the Elizabethan age has great credentials along with the Victorian for being the greatest in english history. To label it a police state is an anachroism, however Elizabeth did develop a fantastic spy network (incidentially that was how she managed to uncover the various plots against her by the likes of Mary Queen of Scots). One her first major success was to end the period of mass religious persecutions in England, Edward VI’s (1547-1553) reign was marred by mass Catholic executions, MAry I (1553-1558) by mass Protestabt executions. Elizabeth who ascended in 1558 soon passed Acts of Parliament that enacted the Religious Settlement a fantastic piece of legal compromise that allowed room for a variety of different forms of worship under the banner of the church of England. This gave Catholics a much more ambigious situation which allowed many to carry on worshiping the way the had under Roman Catholic rule it also allowed for Protestants and incre
