The English Reformation and the laity : Gloucestershire, 1540-1580 / Caroline Litzenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Litzenberger, C. J.

Contributor:

Richard Wakeman Collection of Tudor History (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England--Gloucestershire.

Reformation.

Gloucestershire (England)--Religion.

Gloucestershire (England).

England--Gloucestershire.

Penn Provenance:

Wakeman, Rollin (donor)

Physical Description:

xvii, 218 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge , U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1997]

Summary:

This book tells the story of the English Reformation from the viewpoint of ordinary people and their parishes. The book shows that while some individuals and parishes may have welcomed the new religion, people generally resisted change and then gradually created their own idiosyncratic sets of beliefs and practices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index.

ISBN:

0521475457

OCLC:

36343258