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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshall, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation--England.

Reformation.

England--Religious life and customs.

England.

England--Church history--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (689 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Preface

Part I. Reformations before Reformation

1. The Imitation of Christ

2. Lights of the World

3. Head and Members

4. Marvellous Foolishness

Part II. Separations

5. Converts

6. Martyrs and Matrimony

7. Supremacy

8. Pilgrimage Ends

Part III. New Christianities

9. Mumpsimus and Sumpsimus

10. Josiah

11. Slaying Antichrist

12. The Two Queens

13. Time of Trial

Part IV. Unattainable Prizes

14. Alteration

15. Unsettled England

16. Admonitions

17. Wars of Religion

Postscript

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780300226331

0300226330

OCLC:

1032365694