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Title: English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society Under the Tudors by Christopher Haigh ISBN: 0-19-822162-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Read alongside Dickens, English Reformation.
Comment: Haigh, Christopher. English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors.
Generally presents history as accidental. The course of history is determined by local, short-term contingencies, not long-term trends. This is unlike Dickens with his great trends. Haigh is committed to the short-term contingency because he wants to show that the English Catholic Church showed no trend toward reformation-there was only Reformation dictated from above, encouraged by accidental circumstances.
Haigh attributes causation to English accidents and English particulars: personal, geographic, etc. Perceived "tips," like those Dickens points to, do not necessarily top "icebergs" of general trends.
Henry VIII was no hero of the reformation. He was a great persecutor of heretics. He would never imagine himself anything like them.
Sure, Edward VI could be called one, but Henry VIII, Haigh writes, didn't know he was having his son trained by Protestant sympathizers.
There were three political reformations in England. Henry VIII's, Edward VI's, and Elizabeth's. Each were temporary. The first was stopped by Henry himself-he was no Protestant, the second was stopped by Edward VI's death, and the least was turned into a Puritan hijacking.
The political reformation and the confessional are distinct things. Haigh sees no evidence of the decay of Catholic devotion when the reformation was being handed down from above.
Read this work alongside A.G. Dickens; trust neither implicitly.
Rating: 5
Summary: the complete guide to english reformations
Comment: In this book Christopher Haigh puts the 16th century religious reformations in England into their true perspective. He sees the religious reformations not as 'The Reformation' nor the 'English Reformation' but as 'English Reformations' and that they were part of an ongoing movement which encompassed the 18th century religious reformations. Previous historians,e.g, Dickens and Elton believed that the Protestant reformation was a swift affair and complete by the time of the Religious Settlement of 1559. With the Reformation out of the way the natural next stage of study was 'The causes of the Civil War'.Haigh challenges this perspective and argues that the protestant reformation was less than inevitable and gradually enforced through parliament and by a slow but important process of evangelisation. For him Protestantism was not established in England until the end of Elizabeth I's reign. His arguements are compelling and sensible and, certainly for British undergraduates, his has become essential reading for the student of 16th century England. If there is one book on the reformation worth having then this is it. It is clear, well ordered and lays out the Parliamentary reforms as well as assessing the success of Protestant preachers. His final conclusion is that by the end of Elizabeth's reign England was indeed a Protestant nation, but without being a nation of Protestants.
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Title: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, C.1400-C.1580 by Eamon Duffy ISBN: 0300060769 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603 (British History in Perspective) by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0333921399 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 10 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch ISBN: 0670032964 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The English Reformation Revised by Christopher Haigh ISBN: 0521336317 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 May, 1987 |
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Title: The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy ISBN: 0300098251 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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