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Zusatztext His style is very readable! forceful! and compelling...This is not a facile account of a complicated Reformation. Haigh knows what the complications are and does not hesitate to discuss them. Informationen zum Autor Haigh is the editor of The English Reformation Revised and author of Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (CUP 1987, 1975) English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore
the religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, other historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of the English Protestant establishment. Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenth
century as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of earlier religious changes. This is a scholarly and stimulating book, which challenges traditional ideas about the Reformation and offers a powerful and convincing alternative analysis. Zusammenfassung This lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ordinary English people. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: The Religious World of Roger MartynIntroduction: Interpretations and EvidencePART I: A Church Unchallenged1. Parishes and Piety; 2. The Priests and their People; 3. Books Banned and Heretics Burned; 4. Church Courts and English Law; 5. Politics and Parliament. PART II: Two Political Reformations 1530-15536. Divorce, Supremacy and Schism 1530-1535; 7. Religious Innovations and Royal Injunctions 1535-1538; 8. Resistance and Rebellion 1530-1538; 9. Reformation Reversed 1538-1547; 10. Edward's Reformation 1547-1553PART III: Political Reformation and Protestant Reformation11. The Making of a Minority 1530-1553; 12. Catholic Restoration 1553-1558; 13. Problems and Persecution 1553-1558; 14. Legislation and Visitation 1558-1569; 15. From Resentment to Recusancy; 16. Evangelists in Action.Conclusion: The Reformations and the Division of England...
