Heretics and believers : a history of the English Reformation / Peter Marshall.
Description: 652p. illustrations (black and white)ISBN:- 9780300226331
- 0300226330
- 9780300234589
- BR377 .M34 2018
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BR375. Q34 2019 Dynastic politics and the British reformations, 1558-1630 / | BR375. R97 2009 The age of Reformation : | BR375. S28 The reformation and the English people / | BR377. M34 2018 Heretics and believers : a history of the English Reformation / | BR377. T48 Religion and the Decline of Magic: | BR377. V54 2005 English Catholic historians and the English Reformation, 1585-1954 / | BR377. W48 The Blind devotion of the people: |
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping history, an overview for general readers, argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of 'reform' in various competing guises.
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