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Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation

Peter Marshall
4.27/5 (233 ratings)
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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
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
672 pages
Publication:
2017
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Edition:
1st
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300170629
ISBN13:
9780300170627
kindle Asin:
B072L39PCP

Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation

Peter Marshall
4.27/5 (233 ratings)
Read Download
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
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
672 pages
Publication:
2017
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Edition:
1st
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0300170629
ISBN13:
9780300170627
kindle Asin:
B072L39PCP

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