
Reformation in Britain and Ireland
Felicity Heal(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 3. February 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
588 pages
978-0-19-928015-5 (ISBN)
Description
The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four countries/three kingdoms. The text uses a broadly chronological framework to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-Reformation churches; the political crises of the break with Rome; the development of Protestantism and changes in popular religious culture. The tools of conversion - the Bible, preaching and catechising - are accorded specific attention, as is doctrinal change. It is argued that political calculations did most to determine the success or failure of reformation, though the ideological commitment of a clerical elite was also of central significance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
881 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928015-5 (9780199280155)
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Person
Felicity Heal is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Jesus College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Author
Emeritus Fellow in History, Jesus College, Oxford and Fellow of the British Academy
Content
PART 1: THE TRADITIONAL ORDER ; 1. Authority and Control ; 2. The State of the Clergy ; 3. Communities and Beliefs ; PART 2: THE COMING OF REFORMATION ; 4. The Politics of Reform, 1530-1558 ; 5. The Clergy in the Years of Change ; 6. Responses to Change: The Laity and the Church ; PART 3: WORD AND DOCTRINE ; 7. The Word Disseminated ; 8. Theology and Worship ; PART 4: REFORMATIONS ESTABLISHED AND CONTESTED ; 9. Cuius Regio, Eius Religio? The Churches, Politics, and Religious Identities, 1558-1600 ; 10. Reforming People and Community: Church, Clergy, and Laity, 1558-1600