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    This document summarizes the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I of England during the 16th century. Mary I became queen in 1553 after her father Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church. As a devout Catholic, Mary sought to return England to Catholicism and earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for burning Protestant heretics. Her reign was troubled and she died childless. Elizabeth I became queen in 1558 after Mary's death. She faced challenges of succession, religion and foreign threats. She never married but ruled effectively and strengthened England's navy and trade. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 showed England's growing power under Elizabeth's rule.

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    This document summarizes the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I of England during the 16th century. Mary I became queen in 1553 after her father Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church. As a devout Catholic, Mary sought to return England to Catholicism and earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for burning Protestant heretics. Her reign was troubled and she died childless. Elizabeth I became queen in 1558 after Mary's death. She faced challenges of succession, religion and foreign threats. She never married but ruled effectively and strengthened England's navy and trade. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 showed England's growing power under Elizabeth's rule.

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    This document summarizes the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I of England during the 16th century. Mary I became queen in 1553 after her father Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church. As a devout Catholic, Mary sought to return England to Catholicism and earned the nickname "Bloody Mary" for burning Protestant heretics. Her reign was troubled and she died childless. Elizabeth I became queen in 1558 after Mary's death. She faced challenges of succession, religion and foreign threats. She never married but ruled effectively and strengthened England's navy and trade. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 showed England's growing power under Elizabeth's rule.

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    Mary I and Elizabeth I


    Appunto che descrive il contesto storico dei primi del 500 in
    Inghilterra, e riguarda quindi la dinastia dei Tudor.
    …continua
    di Giorgjo 2' di lettu
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    Mary I
    Mary I was born in 1516: she was a girl and so a disappointment to her fathe
    Henry VIII. Rejection by her father and the cruel treatment of her mother
    influenced her life. While her father broke with Rome she didn’t abandon he
    traditional faith and when she became queen in 1553 she tried to be the
    agent of a Counter-Reformation. The burning of Protestants earned her the
    nickname “Bloody Mary”. Mary’s end was tragic: she was deserted by her
    husband and her country was still divided over religion.

    Elizabeth I
    In 1558 Elizabeth became queen of a divided nation. She was 25 and had a
    strong personality, a great intelligence and an excellent education. She was
    political genius of the first order. She faced the problems of marriage and
    succession, religious division and domestic discontent. She was unmarried

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    and she used to repeat that “the Queen was married to her people”. She
    wore magnificent clothes adorned with rich jewels, she had numerous
    portraits painted and a lot of copies were distributed.
    She recognized Spain as her main trade rival and enemy. She strenghtened
    English naval power and then she secretly encouraged sea captains like
    Francis Drake in their piracy against Spanish ships. In 1588 Spanish decided
    to invade England and sent a great armada of 130 galleons to the English
    channel. The faster and armed English ships were able to defeat the slow an
    heavy Spanish ships. England’s successful resistance showed that Spain was
    not invincible. Since it wasn’t considered safe for Elizabeth to travel around
    the country, she decided to use portraits to show herself to her people. The
    way the queen was painted changed over the course of her reign. Portraitist
    used to paint her with a pale face, with dark brown eyes and with freckles.

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