Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
by Ethan H. Shagan (Author) › Visit Amazon’s Ethan H. Shagan Page See search results for this author Ethan H. Shagan (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (17 Oct. 2002)
Language: English
Hardcover: 360 pages
ISBN-10: 0521808464
ISBN-13: 9780521808460
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Book Description
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.