The reign of Edward VI saw great religious upheaval from a Protestant religion that was Catholic in nature to a more clearly defined and radical quasi-Calvinism. In that sense religious policy hardened. But the policies and ideal never became deeply entrenched and accepted throughout the country and often only existed to serve the interests of those who enacted them, and not the future stance of the church. Under Somerset the changes involved merely creating a …showed first 75 words of 1990 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1990 total…Policy of Protector Somerset, Arnold 1975, p101. Jordan. W, Edward VI, the Threshold of Power, George Allen and Unwin 1970, p362. Jordan. W, Edward VI, the Threshold of Power, George Allen and Unwin 1970, p363. Dickens. A.G., The Reformation Crisis, Ed Joel Hurstfield, Edward Arnold 1965, p 53. Elton. G.R., The Tudor Constitution, Cambridge 1962, p335. Loades. D, Politics and the Nation, Fontana 1980, p200 "The reign of Edward VI saw a definite hardening of religious policy." Do you agree?