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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159448303321

Autore

Ryrie Alec

Titolo

The age of reformation : the Tudor and Stewart realms, 1485-1603 / / Alec Ryrie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-351-98719-4

1-315-27214-8

1-351-98720-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Religion, Politics and Society in Britain

Disciplina

274.1/06

Soggetti

Reformation

Great Britain Church history

Great Britain Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The world of the parish -- 2. Politics and religion in two kingdoms, 1485-1513 -- 3. The Renaissance -- 4. Renaissance to reformation -- 5. Supreme head : Henry VIII's reformation, 1527-47 -- 6. The English revoltuion, Edward VI, 1547-53 -- 7. Two restorations : Mary and Elizabeth, 1553-60 -- 8. Reformation on the battlefield : Scotland, 1542-73 -- 9. Gaping gulfs : Elizabethan England and the politics of fear -- 10. Reforming the world of the parish -- 11. Reformation and empire.

Sommario/riassunto

The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes. In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of the religious and political reformations of the sixteenth century. This turbulent century saw Protestantism come to England, Scotland and even Ireland, while the Tudor and Stewart monarchs made their authority felt within and beyond their kingdoms more than any of their predecessors. This book demonstrates how this age of reformations produced not only a new religion, but a new politics - absolutist, yet pluralist, populist yet



bound by law. This new edition has been fully revised and updated and includes expanded sections on Lollardy and anticlericalism, on Henry VIII's early religious views, on several of the rebellions which convulsed Tudor England and on unofficial religion, ranging from Elizabethan Catholicism to incipient atheism. Drawing on the most recent research, Alec Ryrie explains why these events took the course they did - and why that course was so often an unexpected and unlikely one. It is essential reading for students of early modern British history and the history of the reformation.