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Show CHAPTER V ESSEX'S ANTI-CATHOLIC WRITERS Puritanism was the .radtcal movement of the Elizabethan like most radical movements, Puritanism positive--and more Idealtstic-c-emphases was a were pragmatic--side of the anti-Catholicism. alistic mainstream of her bishops. conservative lishment is on a proved sadly Any study reign. 1 1 the more ide- - That the to be those most ironic comment on hand, which derived ultimately to unite the -Puritans with their the more negative aspects of acceptable to the of Elizabeth IS- Parliaments demonstrates more the Anglican estab- age--and, perhaps, sion from uneasy tolerance to conscientious the its strident by separate the Puritans from the the other hatred, tended Anglican countrymen. -Pur'itan movement more Protestantism and alienate them from Elizabeth and Anti-Catholicism, from mistrust, fear and Its negative-s-and perhaps preceding chapter, movement tended to Anglican The Puritan coin is best characterized As has been noted in the emphases of the two sided coin. pietism and purification, the reformation of the individual and the institution. more Age, and, on human nature. clearly the proges= persecution that developed during Although antagonism between Catholic and Protestant was part of Neale, Eliz'abeth.I and He-r-Parliaments 1584-1601, espe cially pages 58-84, 145-66, 216";"33, 280-98, 355-60. In his analysis of the later-Parliaments, Neale devotes long sections of each chapter to English anti-Catholicism and its effects on legislation. For a Catholic scholar'S view of the period, see volume III of Father Philip Hughes' The Reformation in England (New York: Macmillan, 1963). See J. E. |
