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Heretics and believers : a history of the English Reformation / Peter Marshall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300226331
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BR377 .H474 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Lights of the World -- Head and Members -- Marvellous Foolishness -- Converts -- Martyrs and Matrimony -- Supremacy -- Pilgrimage Ends -- Mumpsimus and Sumpsimus -- Josiah -- Slaying Antichrist -- The Two Queens -- Time of Trial -- Alteration -- Unsettled England -- Admonitions -- Wars of Religion.
Subject: "A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history--the first major overview for general readers in a generation--argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora's Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of "religion" itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church"--
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"A sumptuously written people's history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history--the first major overview for general readers in a generation--argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora's Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of "religion" itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Imitation of Christ -- Lights of the World -- Head and Members -- Marvellous Foolishness -- Converts -- Martyrs and Matrimony -- Supremacy -- Pilgrimage Ends -- Mumpsimus and Sumpsimus -- Josiah -- Slaying Antichrist -- The Two Queens -- Time of Trial -- Alteration -- Unsettled England -- Admonitions -- Wars of Religion.

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