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Popular Politics and the English Reformation
Author: Ethan H. Shagan
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ReviewEthan Shagan set out to fire controversy and in this he will succeed. Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College[A] fascinating interpretation of the English Reformation...Shagan asks imaginative and fresh questions of the evidence...Lucidly and incisively written, Shagans work offers much to ponder. William Wizeman, S.J., Fordham University, Sixteenth Century JournalShagan explores the key social, religious, cultural and governmental elements in Englands conversion to a Protestant nation...[a] comprehensive text... Northwestern...an impressive response to revisionists who argue that the English were inherently conservative and resistant to religious change. Religious Studies ReviewA well-written, innovative work that makes an important and provocative contribution to the debate about why Catholicism lost its hold on the English people. Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryOne of the most thought-provoking books of the last decade on this much-worked topic. Renaissance QuarterlyThis is a book that students of the English Reformation must read, as much for its historiographical arguments as for its case studies...This book is an effective attempt to move the debate over the English Reformation off dead center...Based on extensive archival work, this volume does not pretened to be a history of the Reformation rather, is presents an argument about how reformation occurred. It refreshingly quits trying to count converted noses and conservative faithful and asks a most reasonable question what did people do in the face of reform from above? - Journal of Modern History, Norman Jones, Utah State University Book DescriptionThis is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation, analysing how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that the subject cannot be understood simply by asking theological questions about peoples beliefs, but also must be understood by asking political questions about how they negotiated with state power. Therefore it is as much political as religious history, making a fundamental argument that even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century. This study of popular responses to the English Reformation analyzes how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that the subject cannot be understood simply by asking theological questions about peoples beliefs, but must be understood by asking political questions about how they negotiated with state power. Therefore, it concerns political as well as religious history, since it asserts that, even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century.ReviewEthan Shagan set out to fire controversy and in this he will succeed. Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College[A] fascinating interpretation of the English Reformation...Shagan asks imaginative and fresh questions of the evidence...Lucidly and incisively written, Shagans work offers much to ponder. William Wizeman, S.J., Fordham University, Sixteenth Century JournalShagan explores the key social, religious, cultural and governmental elements in Englands conversion to a Protestant nation...[a] comprehensive text... Northwestern...an impressive response to revisionists who argue that the English were inherently conservative and resistant to religious change. Religious Studies ReviewA well-written, innovative work that makes an important and provocative contribution to the debate about why Catholicism lost its hold on the English people. Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryOne of the most thought-provoking books of the last decade on this much-worked topic. Renaissance QuarterlyThis is a book that students of the English Reformation must read, as much for its historiographical arguments as for its case studies...This book is an effective attempt to move the debate over the English Reformation off dead center...Based on extensive archival work, this volume does not pretened to be a history of the Reformation rather, is presents an argument about how reformation occurred. It refreshingly quits trying to count converted noses and conservative faithful and asks a most reasonable question what did people do in the face of reform from above? - Journal of Modern History, Norman Jones, Utah State University ReviewWhat impresses me especially about this work is the way it tackles the vast array of intractable and often obscure primary sources. Shagan has proved to have an extraordinary nose for investigation in manuscript material he has come up with some gems of neglected sources and has exploited them to the full. He has also acquired a sense of context that indispensable sense of the shape of the English landscape, and how one area relates to another. In sum, this study will become a central statement in our understanding of the English Reformation. Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford This book deserves careful reading because it challenges many accepted views and offers us a new angle from which to understand these momentous changes in our islands history. Contemporary Review Shagan has presented a refashioned study of the ever-engrossing interplay between the governed and the governors of the early English Reformation. Susan Wabuda, H-Albion This is one of the most important books ever written in its field and a must-read for specialists and students alike. History ... an important book ... consistently intriguing. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Ethan Shagans new study of the early years of the English Reformation is a tour de fource. What Popular Politics and the English Reformation attempts to do is to take on and defeat a number of the revisionist shibboleths that have become largely accepted within current historical thinking on the English Reformation. [This book] is an excellent volume, well written, polemical and persuasive - a real contribution to our understanding of the early English Reformation. Reformation This is unusually interesting, clever and learned book. ... He must be congratulated on uncovering so much exciting and complicated detail on the huge canvas of sixteenth-century English religion. Recusant History
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