England's Long Reformation : 1500 - 1800

ISBN-13: 9781857287561 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 360 str.

Nicholas Tyacke;Nicholas Tyacke

Opis

England's Long Reformation" brings together a distinguished team of scholars, who seek to advance beyond current debates concerning the English Reformation. It puts the religious changes of the 16th century in longer perspective than has been traditional and counters the recent emphasis on the popularity of pre-Reformation Catholicism. Instead the case is argued for an underlying trajectory of evangelical activity from the 1520s. The contributors also examine some of the hybrid religious forms which developed and the propagation of the more uncompromising messages of Puritanism and Counter-Reformed Catholicism.; Taking their cue fom continental historians, the authors demonstrate the insights which can be derived by taking a long view of the Reformation in England. The processes of Protestantization and indeed Christianization were involved, with each new generation needing to be won over or at least re- educated. The interaction of religion and society - particularly as regards the so-called "reformation of manners" - is another central theme. Ranging from Tudor Norwich to Hanoverian Bristol, the work collectively breaks down some of the artificial barriers created by periodization and encourages a new way of looking at the English Reformation. This volume should prove valuable reading for those interested in the making of a Protestant nation.

Spis treści

Introduction - Re-Thinking the English Reformation, Nicholas Tyacke; The Long Reformation - Catholicism, Protestantism and the Multitude, Eamon Duffy; Comment on Eamon Duffy's Neale Lecture and the Colloquium, Patrick Collinson; Religious Toleration and the Reformation - Norwich Magistrates in the 16th century, Muriel McClendon; From Catholic to Protestant - the Changing Meaning of Testamentary Religious Provisions in Elizabethan London, David Hickman; Piety and Persuasion in Elizabethan England - the Church of England Meets the Family of Love, Christopher Marsh; The Lopped Tree - the Re-Formation of the Suffolk Catholic Community, Joy Rowe; Prisons, Priests and People, Peter Lake and Michael Questier; Popular Presbyterianism in the 1640s and 1650s - the Cases of Thomas Edwards and Thomas Hall, Anne Hughes; Bristol as a Reformation City, c.1640-1780, Jonathan Barry; Was There a Methodist Evangelistic Strategy in the 18th Century?, W.R. Ward; The Making of a Protestant Nation - Success and Failure in England's Long Reformation, Jeremy Gregory.

O autorze

Nicholas Tyacke