The Reformation in English towns, 1500-1640 / edited by Patrick Collinson and John Craig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collinson, Patrick.

Craig, John, 1963-

Series:

Themes in focus (New York, N.Y.)

Themes in focus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

City and town life.

History.

England.

City and town life--England--History--16th century.

England--Church history--16th century.

Church history.

City and town life--England--History--17th century.

England--Church history--17th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

The concern of this collection of essays is to redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation. Seven case studies of the fortunes Of the Reformation in the North, the West Midlands, the Thames Valley, and the East are followed by four thematic studies. These studies investigate the financial and institutional entrails of the Reformation changes as they redistributed endowments and resources with implications for urban parishes, urban clergy and the townsmen and their ruling elites. The last two essays bring us to some of the cultural reverberations of religious change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-316) and index.

ISBN:

0312214251

OCLC:

49917278