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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450983303321

Autore

Tyacke Nicholas

Titolo

England's Long Reformation [[electronic resource] ] : 1500 - 1800

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 1997

ISBN

1-135-36094-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Disciplina

270.6

274.206

942.06

Soggetti

England - Church history - 16th century

England - Church history - 17th century

England - Church history - 18th century

Reformation

Reformation - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Notes on contributors; Introduction: re-thinking the ~English Reformation~; The Long Reformation: Catholicism, Protestantism and the multitude; Comment on Eamon Duffy's Neale Lecture and the Colloquium; Religious toleration and the Reformation: Norwich magistrates in the sixteenth century; From Catholic to Protestant: the changing meaning of testamentary religious provisions in Elizabethan London; Piety and persuasion in Elizabethan England: the Church of England meets the Family of Love

~The lopped tree~: the re-formation of the Suffolk Catholic community Prisons, priests and people; ~Popular~ Presbyterianism in the 1640's and 1650's: the cases of Thomas Edwards and Thomas Hall; Bristol as a ~Reformation city~ c.1640  1780; Was there a Methodist evangelistic strategy in the eighteenth century?; The making of a Protestant nation: ~success~ and ~failure~ in England's Long Reformation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

England's Long Reformation"" brings together a distinguished team of



scholars, who seek to advance beyond current debates concerning the English Reformation. It puts the religious changes of the 16th century in longer perspective than has been traditional and counters the recent emphasis on the popularity of pre-Reformation Catholicism. Instead the case is argued for an underlying trajectory of evangelical activity from the 1520's. The contributors also examine some of the hybrid religious forms which developed and the propagation of the more uncompromising messages of Puritanism and Counter-Re