Heretics and Believers
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Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Heretics and Believers

A History of the English Reformation

About this book

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history - the first major overview for general readers in a generation - argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora's Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life.

With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of "religion" itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Plates
  3. Preface
  4. Part I. Reformations before Reformation
  5. 1. The Imitation of Christ
  6. 2. Lights of the World
  7. 3. Head and Members
  8. 4. Marvellous Foolishness
  9. Part II. Separations
  10. 5. Converts
  11. 6. Martyrs and Matrimony
  12. 7. Supremacy
  13. 8. Pilgrimage Ends
  14. Part III. New Christianities
  15. 9. Mumpsimus and Sumpsimus
  16. 10. Josiah
  17. 11. Slaying Antichrist
  18. 12. The Two Queens
  19. 13. Time of Trial
  20. Part IV. Unattainable Prizes
  21. 14. Alteration
  22. 15. Unsettled England
  23. 16. Admonitions
  24. 17. Wars of Religion
  25. Postscript
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Notes
  28. Index