Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network. I'm your host, Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in touch with our own humanity.

This is episode 90, the final of the four-part series on the English Reformation that I'm doing this year, the 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses, which

is coming up in just a couple of days. This final one is on Elizabeth's religious settlement.

I should add that I've already done episodes on the Catholic experience in Elizabeth in England,

on Mary Queen of Scots, who plays into this a whole lot, and on Francis Walsingham,

Elizabeth's very Protestant spymaster. So I will add those episodes to the show notes that

I'm finally compiling with all of this information, and they will be at Englandcast.com.

Quick announcement on the Tudor Planner. The 2018 Tudor Planner, which is a weekly and monthly diary filled

with tutor history, music listening suggestions with a Spotify playlist, quotes, all wrapped in a gorgeous cover inspired by an illuminated manuscript.

It's now available for pre-order and it will ship on November 15th. And let me tell you, these planners are so gorgeous. I've made a lot of changes

after the feedback from last year, and it came out really well. So if you pre-order by November 15th,

you get a discount of $5 off the regular price, and you will get them before anybody else does.

So go to Tudorplanter.com to see a video of the planner, pictures, and all the ordering information.

Finally, I need to thank my patrons. I have amazing patrons. Thank you to Kathy, Juergen, Ashley, Kendra,

Anne Boleyn, also known as Jessica, Elizabeth, Cynthia, Judy, Kaylee, Ian, Laura, Barbara, Shar,

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So we are now at the final episode here in Reformation Month.

We started out by discussing the state of the medieval church on the eve of the 1520s in England.

Then we looked at Henry's Reformation. Then we went through

11 years of religious whiplash under Edward and Mary. And here we are now at Elizabeth.

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