ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts covered in this book. Setbacks and obstacles were nothing new to Elizabeth's relationship with the Protestant Princes, but these impediments were significantly more challenging than those before. The book discusses Anglo-German religious and political relations during the age of confessional hardening and wars of religion. In England, conservative Protestants with the Queen leading built their national identity upon an anti-Catholic ideology and were open to dialogue with a broad spectrum of Protestants in Germany and elsewhere. In the Holy Roman Empire, the Princes looked to Elizabeth as the head of the Protestant International and legitimate successor to the earlier association between Henry VIII and the Schmalkaldic League. Openness in both parties produced the formulation in England of a policy to work with leaders in Protestant Germania for causes greater than themselves, and implementation of that policy was relatively consistent, despite substantial obstacles.
