The recent historiography of the English Reformation / Christopher Haigh -- Protestant culture and the cultural revolution / Patrick Collinson -- Puritanism, Arminianism and counter-revolution / Nicholas Tyacke -- Archbishop Laud / Kevin Sharpe -- The via media in the early Stuart Church / Peter White -- Parliament in the reign of Elizabeth I / Geoffrey Elton -- England in 1637 / Conrad Russell -- The coming of war / John Morrill -- The early expansion of Protestantism in England 1520-1558 / A.G. Dickens -- Calvinism and the English Church 1570-1635 / Peter Lake -- Popular politics before the civil war / David Underdown -- News and politics in early seventeenth-century England / Richard Cust -- Local history and the origins of the civil war / Ann Hughes
Summary
Few periods of English history have been so subject to 'revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It draws together thirteen articles culled from familiar and also less accessible sources ; embraces revisionist and counter-revisionist viewpoints ; covers Tudor as well as early Stuart England ; includes helpful glossary, explanatory headnotes and suggestions for further reading. These carefully edited and introduced essays draw on the new evidence of newsletters and ballads and ritual, as well as the more traditional sources, to offer a new and broader understanding of this transformative era of English history. -- Book cover
Analysis
Politics Related to Religion History
England
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-279)
