Popular Politics and the English Reformation

ISBN-13: 9780521525558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 364 str.

Ethan H. Shagan; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy

Opis

This study of popular responses to the English Reformation analyzes how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that the subject cannot be understood simply by asking theological questions about people's beliefs, but must be understood by asking political questions about how they negotiated with state power. Therefore, it concerns political as well as religious history, since it asserts that, even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century.

Recenzje

'This is unusually interesting, clever and learned book. … He must be congratulated on uncovering so much exciting and complicated detail on the huge canvas of sixteenth-century English religion.' Recusant History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. The Break with Rome and the Crisis of Conservatism: 1. 'Schismatics be now plain heretics': debating the royal supremacy over the Church of England; 2. The anatomy of opposition in early Reformation England: the case of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent; 3. Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace revisited; Part II. Points of Contact: The Henrician Reformation and the English People: 4. Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation; 5. Selling the sacred: Reformation and dissolution at the Abbey of Hailes; 6. 'Open disputation was in alehouses': religious debate in the diocese of Canterbury, c. 1543; Part III. Sites of Reformation: Collaboration and Popular Politics under Edward VI: 7. Resistance and collaboration in the dissolution of the chantries; 8. The English people and the Edwardian Reformation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.