The English Reformation Religion and Cultural Adaption

by Jones, Norman L.

• ISBN13: 9780631210429
• ISBN10: 0631210423
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This history tells the story of how the English, over three generations, adapted to the religious changes forced upon them by the Reformation and, in doing so, radically reconstructed their culture.

Author Biography

Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His previous publications include Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (1982), God and the Moneylenders (Blackwell Publishers, 1989), The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell Publishers, 1992) and The Parliaments of Elizabethan English (Blackwell Publishers, 1993).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Post-Reformation Culture	1	(6)
Choosing Reformations	7	(26)
Families and Reformations	33	(25)
Dissolutions and Opportunities	58	(37)
Redefining Communities	95	(39)
Reinventing Public Virtue	134	(37)
Learning Private Virtue	171	(25)
The Post-Reformation World View	196	(7)
Notes	203	(22)
Select Bibliography	225	(16)
Index	241