Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Ser.: Popular Politics and the English Reformation by Ethan H. Shagan (2002, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521525551

ISBN-139780521525558

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Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePopular Politics and the English Reformation

Publication Year2002

SubjectEurope / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), Europe / Great Britain / General, Religion, Politics & State

TypeTextbook

AuthorEthan H. Shagan

Subject AreaReligion, History

SeriesCambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-025672

Reviews"Shagan explores the key social, religious, cultural and governmental elements in England's conversion to a Protestant nation...[a] comprehensive text..." Northwestern, ‘This is one of the most important books ever written in its field and a must-read for specialists and students alike.’History, 'This is one of the most important books ever written in its field and a must-read for specialists and students alike.' History, 'Ethan Shagan's new study of the early years of the English Reformation is a tour de fource. What Popular Politics and the English Reformation attempts to do is to take on and defeat a number of the revisionist shibboleths that have become largely accepted within current historical thinking on the English Reformation. [This book] is an excellent volume, well written, polemical and persuasive - a real contribution to our understanding of the early English Reformation.' Reformation, "[A] fascinating interpretation of the English Reformation...Shagan asks imaginative and fresh questions of the evidence...Lucidly and incisively written, Shagan's work offers much to ponder." William Wizeman, S.J., Fordham University, Sixteenth Century Journal, 'This is unusually interesting, clever and learned book. ... He must be congratulated on uncovering so much exciting and complicated detail on the huge canvas of sixteenth-century English religion.' Recusant History, "Ethan Shagan set out to fire controversy and in this he will succeed." Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College, "...an impressive response to revisionists who argue that the English were inherently conservative and resistant to religious change." Religious Studies Review, ‘Shagan has presented a refashioned study of the ever-engrossing interplay between thegoverned and the governors of the early English Reformation.’Susan Wabuda, H-Albion, "A well-written, innovative work that makes an important and provocative contribution to the debate about why Catholicism lost its hold on the English people." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, ‘What impresses me especially about this work is the way it tackles the vast array of intractable and often obscure primary sources. Shagan has proved to have an extraordinary nose for investigation in manuscript material; he has come up with some gems of neglected sources and has exploited them to the full. He has also acquired a sense of context: that indispensable sense of the shape of the English landscape, and how one area relates to another. In sum, this study will become a central statement in our understanding of the English Reformation.’Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, "One of the most thought-provoking books of the last decade on this much-worked topic." Renaissance Quarterly, 'Shagan has presented a refashioned study of the ever-engrossing interplay between the governed and the governors of the early English Reformation.' Susan Wabuda, H-Albion, "This is a book that students of the English Reformation must read, as much for its historiographical arguments as for its case studies...This book is an effective attempt to move the debate over the English Reformation off dead center...Based on extensive archival work, this volume does not pretened to be a history of the Reformation; rather, is presents an argument about how reformation occurred. It refreshingly quits trying to count converted noses and conservative faithful and asks a most reasonable question: what did people do in the face of reform from above?" - Journal of Modern History, Norman Jones, Utah State University, 'Shagan has presented a refashioned study of the ever-engrossing interplay between thegoverned and the governors of the early English Reformation.'Susan Wabuda, H-Albion, 'What impresses me especially about this work is the way it tackles the vast array of intractable and often obscure primary sources. Shagan has proved to have an extraordinary nose for investigation in manuscript material; he has come up with some gems of neglected sources and has exploited them to the full. He has also acquired a sense of context: that indispensable sense of the shape of the English landscape, and how one area relates to another. In sum, this study will become a central statement in our understanding of the English Reformation.' Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, ‘This book deserves careful reading because it challenges many accepted views and offers us a new angle from which to understand these momentous changes in our island’s history.’Contemporary Review, 'This book deserves careful reading because it challenges many accepted views and offers us a new angle from which to understand these momentous changes in our island's history.' Contemporary Review, 'This is unusually interesting, clever and learned book. â€¦ He must be congratulated on uncovering so much exciting and complicated detail on the huge canvas of sixteenth-century English religion.' Recusant History

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal942.05

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. The Break with Rome and the Crisis of Conservatism: 1. 'Schismatics be now plain heretics': debating the royal supremacy over the Church of England; 2. The anatomy of opposition in early Reformation England: the case of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent; 3. Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace revisited; Part II. Points of Contact: The Henrician Reformation and the English People: 4. Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation; 5. Selling the sacred: Reformation and dissolution at the Abbey of Hailes; 6. 'Open disputation was in alehouses': religious debate in the diocese of Canterbury, c. 1543; Part III. Sites of Reformation: Collaboration and Popular Politics under Edward VI: 7. Resistance and collaboration in the dissolution of the chantries; 8. The English people and the Edwardian Reformation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

SynopsisThis 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 the twenty-year-old scholarly dilemma of how the English Reformation could have succeeded despite the inherent conservatism of the English people, and it presents a genuinely post-revisionist account of one of the central events of English history., This study of popular responses to the English Reformation analyzes how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that the subject cannot be understood simply by asking theological questions about people's beliefs, but must be understood by asking political questions about how they negotiated with state power. Therefore, it concerns political as well as religious history, since it asserts that, even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century., This is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation, analysing how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century.

LC Classification NumberDA332S48 2002