How the English reformation was named : the politics of history, c. 1400-1700 / Benjamin M. Guyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guyer, Benjamin M., author.

Series:

Oxford Academic.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church of England.

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

Reformation--England--Sources.

English literature--Early modern.

English literature.

England--Church history--16th century.

England.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

How the English Reformation was Named analyzes the shifting semantics of "reformation" in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, "reformation" was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But despite referring to sixteenth-century religious change, the proper noun "English Reformation" entered the historical lexicon only during the British civil wars of the 1640s. Anglican apologists coined this term to defend the Church of England against proponents of the Scottish Reformation, an event that contemporaries singled out for its violence and illegality. Using their neologism to denote select events from the mid-Tudor era, Anglicans crafted a historical narrative that enabled them to present a pristine vision of the English past, one that they endeavored to preserve amidst civil war, regicide, and political oppression. With the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England in 1660, apologetic narrative became historiographical habit and, eventually, historical certainty.

Contents:

List of Figure and Table

Gratis

Introduction

1. In Head and in Members: Discourses of Reformation, c. 1414-1563

2. Dangerous Positions: Debating Reformation, 1553-1603

3. That Damned Dialogue: The Reformations of Jacobean Britain, 1603-25

4. This Present Reformation in England: From Civil Wars to Apologetic Consensus, 1625-60

5. Reformed Catholics, True Protestants: Tudor Religious History in Restoration England, 1660-85

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on Publisher website; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Guyer, Benjamin M. How the English Reformation Was Named

ISBN:

0-19-195647-3

0-19-268960-6

0-19-268961-4

OCLC:

1334105906

Publisher Number:

10.1093/oso/9780192865724.001.0001 DOI