English Society and Culture Without the Reformation

Anaxagoras

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How would English society and culture have evolved if England had remained loyal to Catholicism? Would England have still seen a literary renaissance in the late 16th and early 17th Centuries? Would it have been more politically stable without the religious strife of OTL? Would we still have seen overseas expansion?

Discuss.
 
Well, it's a really specific subject after all...
For starters, I think if an anti-Irish feeling rise in Britain, it would be quite different and lowered compared to OTL. Now, could it lead to a "British" culturally speaking, Ireland?
 
Well, it's a really specific subject after all...
For starters, I think if an anti-Irish feeling rise in Britain, it would be quite different and lowered compared to OTL. Now, could it lead to a "British" culturally speaking, Ireland?

It's possible that even without the religious excuse, things may be not that good for the Irishes... Look at the Welshes (specially them), and the Scots.

Up to recent times by example, I heard schools forbid kids to speak welsh...
 
What is meant by Reformation? Are you talking about the split between London or Rome? Or the greater changes that occurred in Elizabethan and Stuart times? Either way, England still depends on the sea for trade and defense, and will expand outward in search of new markets regardless.
 
Well, it's a really specific subject after all...
For starters, I think if an anti-Irish feeling rise in Britain, it would be quite different and lowered compared to OTL. Now, could it lead to a "British" culturally speaking, Ireland?

Is it possible that a Catholic England would result in a Protestant Ireland? I do know that much of anti-Protestant pro-Catholic sentiment in England OTL was significantly based on anti-establishment feeling and class sentiment (e.g. the Prayer Book Rebellion.) Similarly, Lollard groups tended to end up Puritan/Quaker/etc.
 
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