Popular Politics and the English Reformation Paperback / softback
by Ethan H. (Northwestern University, Illinois) Shagan
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series
Paperback / softback
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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.
These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as people attempted to co-opt state power for their own purposes.
This study argues, then, that the English Reformation was not done to people, it was done with them in a dynamic process of engagement between government and people.
As such, it answers the twenty-year-old scholarly dilemma of how the English Reformation could have succeeded despite the inherent conservatism of the English people, and it presents a genuinely post-revisionist account of one of the central events of English history.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/10/2002
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- ISBN:9780521525558
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:364 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/10/2002
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- ISBN:9780521525558
