ABSTRACT
The first writer to associate Elizabeth I and the Virgin Mary was John Aylmer in An Harborowe for faithfull and trewe subiectes. Aylmer's projection of Elizabeth as Deborah in An Harborowe, which is said to have provided "a normative model for later apologists", obviously echoed the representation of Deborah in the coronation tableau. Elizabeth I was the second English sovereign to be crowned a Protestant imperial monarch. Although her crowning, like Edward VI's, followed the ancient Latin order of coronation, her ceremony, like his, was modified to conform officially to radically new religious sensibilities. The revolution of the 1530s invested that legacy with new meaning by establishing in law Henry VIII's imperial authority. Iconographically, the connections between that revolution and the coronations of Edward VI and Elizabeth I are direct. Edward VI was crowned on 20 February 1547 by Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, in a rite that Cranmer had rewritten to fit the conditions of Edward's supremacy.
