The Age of Reformation

Author: Ryrie, Alec
Brand: Taylor & Francis
Edition: Second
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 328
Release Date: 19-01-2017
EAN: 9780367239381
Languages: English

Details:
The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics, and social change were always intimately linked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor Court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes. In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of the religious and political reformations of the sixteenth century. This turbulent century saw Protestantism spread to England, Scotland, and even Ireland, while the Tudor and Stewart monarchs asserted their authority within and beyond their kingdoms more than any of their predecessors.

This book demonstrates how the Age of Reformations produced not only a new religion but also a new politics—absolutist, yet pluralist, populist yet bound by law. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, including expanded sections on Lollardy and anticlericalism, Henry VIII's early religious views, several rebellions that convulsed Tudor England, and unofficial religion, ranging from Elizabethan Catholicism to incipient atheism. Drawing on the most recent research, Alec Ryrie explains why these events unfolded as they did—and why that course was often unexpected and unlikely.

It is essential reading for students of early modern British history and the history of the Reformation.