Historiography contemporary to the English Reformation, 1525-70 -- Interpretations of the Reformation from Fuller to Strype -- Historians and contemporary politics, 1780-1850 -- The Church of England in crisis: the Reformation heritage -- The Tudor revolution in religion: the twentieth-century debate -- The Reformation and the people: discovery -- The Church: how it changed -- The debate in the age of peer review -- The place of the Reformation in modern biography, fiction and the media -- Conclusion: Reformation: reformulation, reiteration and reflection
Summary
Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation relevant to their own times and have in the process rediscovered, redefined and rewritten its story
Analysis
00030 England 11030 Christian church 21030 Reformation 1525-1570 21030 historiography
