Popular Politics and the English Reformation
Popular Politics and the English Reformation By Ethan H. Shagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 0521525551 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2008 | 364 Pages | ISBN: 0521525551 | PDF | 1 MB
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 people's 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.