The Reformation in English Towns, 1500-1640

ISBN-13: 9780333634301 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 335 str.

Opis

This volume seeks to address a relatively neglected subject in the field of English reformation studies: the reformation in its urban context. Drawing on the work of a number of historians, this collection of essays will seek to explore some of the dimensions of that urban stage and to trace, using a mixture of detailed case studies and thematic reflections, some of the ways in which religious change was both effected and affected by the activities of townsmen and women.

Spis treści

Introduction; Patrick Collinson and John Craig.- PART ONE: REFORMATION CASE STUDIES.- The Birth of a Protestant Town:The Process of Reformation in Tudor Colchester, 1530-1580; Mark Byford.- Religion in Doncaster from the Reformation to the Civil War; Claire Cross.- Politics and Religion in Early Modern Beverley; David Lamburn.- The Coming of Protestantism to Elizabethan Tewkesbury; Caroline Litzenberger.- Worcester: A Cathedral City in the Reformation; Diarmaid MacCulloch.- Leadership and Priorities in Reading During the Reformation; Jeanette Martin.- Textiles and Reform: Halifax and its Hinterland; William and Sarah Sheils.- PART TWO: THE RESOURCES OF URBAN REFORMATION.- Economic Problems of Provincial Urban Clergy During the Reformation; Patrick Carter.- The Dissolution of the Chantries; Peter Cunich.- Voluntary Religion and Reformation Change in Eight Urban Parishes; Beat Kumin.- Reformation, Resources and Authority in English Towns: An Overview; Robert Tittler.- PART THREE: THE CHANGING CULTURE OF URBAN REFORMATION.- The Shearmen's Tree and the Preacher: The Strange Death of Merry England in Shrewsbury and Beyond; Patrick Collinson.- Religion Satire in English Towns, 1570-1640; Adam Fox.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

PATRICK COLLINSON was one time Regius Chair of Modern History, Cambridge University, UK.

JOHN CRAIG is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.