• Can historians ever uncover the religious views of Elizabeth I? Do they play a significant role in the course England's Reformation?
• How would you characterize the response of the population to the 'Religious Settlement'?
• 'If the English Reformation is understood as a "failure", it was a failure caused by institutions and structures'. Discuss.
• Was the English Reformation something which happened to the people of England?
• 'The central doctrine of the Elizabethan Church was obedience'. Discuss.
• Was there anything distinctly 'Elizabethan' about the Elizabethan Reformation?
• English Catholicism: survival or revival?
• 'The Northern Rising was a damp squib'. Discuss.
• Is it accurate to speak of a 'Puritan movement'?
• Who posed the greater problem to the Elizabethan regime: Catholics or Puritans?
• Was the relationship between Protestantism and 'popular culture' antagonistic?
• Was the population of England ever 'Protestant' in Elizabethan England?
• Did 'Supremacy' make the monarch more or less powerful?