Reformation England, 1480-1642 / Peter Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Peter, 1964-

Series:

Reading history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

Protestantism.

History.

England.

Protestantism--England--History--16th century.

England--Church history--16th century.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Reformation England provides a clear and critical account of recent scholarly approaches, while at the same time retaining a narrative drive. This volume combines reassessment of familiar debates and topics with introductions to newer historiographical concerns: religious life before the Reformation; the early evangelical movement; meanings of 'puritanism' and 'catholicism' in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the nature of religious 'conformity'; religious conflict and the advent of civil war. The book addresses a problem whose ramifications are still with us: why the English became divided over religion, and why, despite the efforts of a succession of governments, those divisions could not be healed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.

ISBN:

0340706236

0340706244

OCLC:

53034639