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Author Shagan, Ethan H., 1971-

Title Popular politics and the English Reformation / Ethan H. Shagan
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
Contents pt. 1. The break with Rome and the crisis of conservatism : 'Schismatics be now plain heretics': debating the royal supremacy over the Church of England -- The anatomy of opposition in early Reformation England: the case of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent -- Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace revisited -- pt. 2. Points of contact: the Henrician Reformation and the English people : Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation -- Selling the sacred: reformation and dissolution at the Abbey of Hailes -- 'Open disputation was in alehouses': religious debate in the diocese of Canterbury, c. 1543 -- pt. 3. Sites of Reformation: collaboration and popular politics under Edward VI : Resistance and collaboration in the dissolution of the chantries -- The English people and the Edwardian Reformation
Summary This 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.--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-326) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Christianity and politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
Public opinion -- England -- History -- 16th century
Populism -- England -- History -- 16th century
Reformation -- England.
HISTORY.
Christianity and politics
Politics and government
Populism
Public opinion
Reformation
Reformation
Volksglaube
Innenpolitik
Reformatie.
Politieke activiteit.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1509-1547. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056885
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1547-1553. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056886
Great Britain -- History -- 1485- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056778
Subject England
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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