| {"id":"england.c-19","content":"Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603)\nDuring the Tudor period, England began to develop naval skills, and exploration intensified in the Age of Discovery.[52] Henry VIII broke from communion with the Catholic Church, over issues relating to his divorce, under the Acts of Supremacy in 1534 which proclaimed the monarch head of the Church of England. In contrast with much of European Protestantism, the roots of the split were more political than theological.[d] He also legally incorporated his ancestral land Wales into the Kingdom of England with the 1535–1542 acts. There were internal religious conflicts during the reigns of Henry's daughters, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The former took the country back to Catholicism while the latter broke from it again, forcefully asserting the supremacy of Anglicanism. The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor age of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (\"the Virgin Queen\"). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history that represented the apogee of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of great art, drama, poetry, music and literature.[54] England during this period had a centralised, well-organised, and effective government.[55]","order_int":19,"metadata":{"splitter_name":"RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter","length":244,"section_id":"england","section":{}}} |