The Age of Reformation (Religion, Politics and Society in Britain)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Series editor’s preface
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Frontispiece
Chapter 1: The world of the parish
	Living in early modern Britain
		A lost world
		Plague and its aftermath
		Diversions and hopes
	The Church as an institution
		The structure
		The clergy
		Beyond the parish
	Parish Christianity
		Inside the parish church
		The Mass and its meaning
		The living and the dead
	Satisfaction and dissent
		Heresy
		‘Anticlericalism’
	Notes
Chapter 2: Politics and religion in two kingdoms, 1485–1513
	Governing Britain
		Kingship, lordship and elective monarchy
		Structures of government
		Church and state
	The usurper’s tale: Henry VII and the restoration of stability
		Challenge and survival: the pretenders
		Money and control
		Kingship, popularity and legitimacy
	‘The lord of the world’: James IV’s Scotland and the theatre of kingship
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Renaissance
	Out of Italy
		The weight of history in the middle ages
		The Italian Renaissance and what came of it
	The Renaissance in Britain
		Scotland
		England
		Renaissance and reformation
	Books and printing
	Notes
Chapter 4: Renaissance to Reformation
	Henry VIII and the glamour of kingship, 1509–27
		The performer king
		The cardinal\'s king
	The Lutheran heresy
		A problem of theology
		Evangelical heresy in England
	Scotland: religion and politics under James V, 1513–42
	Notes
Chapter 5: Supreme head: Henry VIII’s Reformation, 1527–47
	The break with Rome
		Conscience and dispensation: Two trials, 1527–29
		A new approach: 1529–32
		From ‘divorce’ to ‘reformation’
	Henry VIII’s world of reformation
		Books and articles
		King Hezekiah: Reformation in practice
	Reactions and responses
		Religious conservatives: active resistance, passive resistance
		Evangelicals: from loyalty to frustration
		The wider population: confusion and conformity
	Notes
Chapter 6: The English revolution: Edward VI, 1547–53
	Carnival: Protector Somerset’s reformation
		From Henry VIII to Protector Somerset
		The gospellers unleashed, 1547–49
		Official reformation: The first phase
	1549–50: The hinge of the Edwardian regime
		The crises of 1549
		Religious opposition and its failure
	Lent: the Duke of Northumberland’s Reformation
		Consolidation and division
		The Edwardian future
		Elective monarchy revisited: the Jane Grey debacle
	Notes
Chapter 7: Two restorations: Mary and Elizabeth, 1553–60
	Mary
		Religion, marriage, and their consequences
		Rebuilding the Church
		The Protestant problem
		The end of the regime and the transfer of power
	Elizabeth
		The path to the ‘Settlement’
		Implementing reform
	Notes
Chapter 8: Reformation on the battlefield: Scotland, 1542–73
	Regency, 1542–58
		The crisis of 1543
		The ‘Rough Wooing’
		French Scotland, 1550–59
	The Scottish Revolution, 1558–61
		An unexpected war
		An unexpected peace
	A tragedy of errors: Mary and the Scots, 1561–73
		Playing the queen, 1561–67
		King’s men and queen’s men, 1567–73
	Notes
Chapter 9: Gaping gulfs: Elizabethan England and the politics of fear
	Marriage and the succession: the long crisis
		From elective monarchy to monarchical republic
		The marriage problem
	‘By halves and by petty invasions’: war and rumours of war
	Catholicism, ‘popery’, and the enemy within
	Notes
Chapter 10: Reforming the world of the parish
	Protestant Scotland: from kirk session to presbytery
		A disciplined Church
		Bishops and presbyteries
	Puritans and conformists in England
		The long struggle against the Settlement
		The resurgence of conformity
		Building Puritanism in the parishes
		Popular religion in Elizabethan England: a group portrait
	Notes
Chapter 11: Reformation and empire
	The navigations of the English nation
	Securing peripheries, 1485–1560
		The end of independent lordships: Ireland and Wales, 1485–1534
		The Henrician settlements
		Reformation in the uplands
	The Celtic Reformations 1560–1603: success and failure
		Wales and the Scottish Highlands: the path to Protestantism
		Ireland on the edge
		Ireland, England, and Essex: the crisis of the 1590s
	Notes
Epilogue: Electing a Monarch, 1603
	Note
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	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
Index