Popular Politics and the English Reformation

Name: Popular Politics and the English Reformation
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ISBN: 9780521525558

ISBN-10: 0521525551

ISBN-13: 9780521525558

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ethan H. Shagan, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy, John Morrill

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This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as people attempted to co-opt state power for their own purposes. This study argues, then, that the English Reformation was not done to people, it was done with them in a dynamic process of engagement between government and people. As such, it answers…

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List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

John Guyis curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Jorrit Britschgiis curator of Indian Painting, Museum Rietberg Zürich.



Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Note on the text


Introduction



The Break with Rome and the Crisis of Conservatism



'Schismatics be now plain heretics': debating the royal supremacy over the Church of England



The anatomy of opposition in early Reformation England: the case of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent



Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace revisited



Points of Contact: The Henrician Reformation and the English People



Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation



Selling the sacred: Reformation and dissolution at the Abbey of Hailes



'Open disputation was in alehouses': religious debate in the diocese of Canterbury, c. 1543



Sites of Reformation: Collaboration and Popular Politics under Edward VI



Resistance and collaboration in the dissolution of the chantries



The English people and the Edwardian Reformation


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index