The Elizabethan Archbishops
Deryck Abel assesses the challenges to, and abilities of, the various heads of the English church under Queen Elizabeth I.
During seventeen years, the history of the life of Archbishop Parker was the history of a Church and a nation. The son of a “calenderer of stuffs,” Matthew Parker became the foremost spokesman and architect of the Elizabethan religious settlement and, with his sovereign and with his successors, Grindal and Whitgift, founder of a distinctive Anglicanism, alike remote from the extremes of papacy and presbytery, Rome and Geneva.
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