Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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An examination of the significance and function of oaths in the English Reformation.

Author: Jonathan Michael Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Jonathan Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781139776561
Category : RELIGION
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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An examination of the significance and function of oaths in the English Reformation.

Author: Edward Vallance
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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An assessment of the importance of oaths, and the taking of, and the idea of national covenants during a turbulent time in English history. This book studies the oaths and covenants taken during the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, a time of great religious and political upheaval, assessing their effect and importance. From the reign of Mary I to the Exclusion crisis, Protestant writers argued that England was a nation in covenant with God and urged that the country should renew its contract with the Lord through taking solemn oaths. In so doing, they radically modified understandings of monarchy, political allegiance and the royal succession. During the civil war, the tendering of oaths of allegiance, the Protestation of 1641 and the Vow and Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 (all describedas embodiments of England's national covenant) also extended the boundaries of the political nation. The poor and illiterate, women as well as men, all subscribed to these tests of loyalty, which were presented as social contracts between the Parliament and the people. The Solemn League and Covenant in particular continued to provoke political controversy after 1649 and even into the 1690s many English Presbyterians still viewed themselves as bound by itsterms; the author argues that these covenants had a significant, and until now unrecognised, influence on 'politics-out-of-doors' in the eighteenth century. EDWARD VALLANCE is Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Liverpool.

Author: History
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Thea Cervone
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This multi-disciplinary work explores how writers of the Tudor era addressed the subject in response to the profound changes of the Reformation and the creative explosion of the Elizabethan period. Topics include how the art of rhetoric was deployed in polemic, the way in which oaths formed bonds between Church and State, and how oaths functioned in literature, as ceremony and as a language England used to describe itself during times of radical change.

Author: Susan Royal
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526128829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants. It focuses on the work of John Foxe, whose influential Acts and Monuments (1563) reoriented the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects, portraying them as Protestants’ ideological forebears. It is a scholarly mainstay that Foxe edited radical lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. But this book offers a strong corrective to the argument, revealing that the subversive material present in Foxe’s text allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions. The book argues that the same lollards who were used to strengthen the English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth.

Author: Ethan H. Shagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521525558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as people attempted to co-opt state power for their own purposes. This study argues, then, that the English Reformation was not done to people, it was done with them in a dynamic process of engagement between government and people. As such, it answers the twenty-year-old scholarly dilemma of how the English Reformation could have succeeded despite the inherent conservatism of the English people, and it presents a genuinely post-revisionist account of one of the central events of English history.

Author: Charles Plowden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: John Reeves
Publisher:
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Category : Catholic emancipation
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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