Title Lollards in the English Reformation : history, radicalism, and John Foxe / Susan Royal

Published Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) : file(s) Series Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain. Contents Introduction -- 1. Lollards, evangelicals and historians -- 2. The Christian commonwealth -- 3. The lollard legacy of persecution -- 4. Sacraments -- 5. Priesthood and tithing -- 6. Preaching and conventicles -- Conclusions -- Index Summary This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants. It focuses on the work of John Foxe, whose influential <i>Acts and Monuments</i> (1563) reoriented the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects, portraying them as Protestants' ideological forebears. It is a scholarly mainstay that Foxe edited radical lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. But this book offers a strong corrective to the argument, revealing that the subversive material present in Foxe's text allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions. The book argues that the same lollards who were used to strengthen the English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth. "This volume addresses a perennial question in the history of English religion: to what extent did the late-medieval dissenters known as lollards influence the Protestant Reformation? To answer this question, it examines the afterlife of the lollards as shaped by sixteenth-century evangelicals, especially John Foxe, and their seventeenth-century successors. Foxe's <i>Acts and Monuments</i> (1563) is second only to the Bible as the most influential book in early modern England, a juggernaut in Tudor historical writing that solidified the emergent national church. His reorientation of the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects portrayed these medieval dissenters as Protestants' ideological forebears. This volume offers a strong corrective to the traditional interpretation that Foxe heavily edited radical Lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. Instead, it shows that a wealth of non-mainstream material is present in Foxe's text that allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions, including the act of separation.<i>Lollards in the English Reformation</i> traces the ensuing struggle for the Lollard legacy between conformists and nonconformists, arguing that the same lollards that Foxe used to bolster the fledgling English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth. This fresh and exciting research promises to shake up our assumptions about Foxe, the levels of radicalism in post-Reformation Protestantism and the significance of historical precedent in post-Reformation polemic." -- Back cover Notes Made available via: manchesterhive MUP 2020 titles Includes index Audience Students and lecturers in early modern British religious history Notes In English Description based on publisher's data Subject Foxe, John, 1516-1587 -- Influence SUBJECT Foxe, John, 1516-1587 fast Subject Lollards. Reformation -- England. Reformation -- Early movements -- Influence Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Lollards Reformation Religion Early Modern History. European history: Reformation. SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267 England -- Religion -- 16th century England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268 England -- Religion -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043309 Subject England Genre/Form Church history Form Electronic book Author Manchester University Press, publisher. ISBN 1526128810 9781526128812

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