Reformation in Britain And Ireland

by Heal, Felicity

• ISBN13: 9780199280155
• ISBN10: 0199280150
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is an innovative volume which studies the coming of reform in the sixteenth century more broadly than do traditional national narratives of religious change. It argues for an interactive and comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Through the examination of political choices, of ecclesiastical structures, and of individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in these islands.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xiv
Abbreviations	xv
Note on Conventions and Money	xvii
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I The Traditional Order	13	(100)
1 Authority and Control	15	(28)
I Papacy	15	(15)
II Crown and Church	30	(8)
III The Distribution of Power	38	(5)
2 The State of the Clergy	43	(38)
I The Religious	45	(14)
II The Seculars	59	(22)
3 Communities and Beliefs	81	(32)
I Parish and Guild	81	(14)
II The Household and Piety	95	(3)
III The Sacramental Economy	98	(97)
IV Images and Pilgrimages	195
V Popular Dissent	109	(4)
Part II The Coming of Reformation	113	(142)
4 The Politics of Reform, 1530-1558	115	(64)
I Divorce and Supremacy	117	(8)
II Jurisdiction and Authority in King Henry's Realms	125	(7)
III Henrician Policy	132	(8)
IV The Monastic Dissolutions	140	(8)
V The End of Henricianism	148	(3)
VI Scotland and England, 1542-1550	151	(6)
VII The Reign of King Josiah	157	(9)
VIII Policy in Edwardian and Marian Ireland	166	(6)
IX Restoring Catholicism: England, 1553-1558	172	(7)
5 The Clergy in the Years of Change, 1530-1558	179	(38)
I Prelates and Councils	179	(14)
II The Higher Clergy	193	(8)
III Wealth and Expropriation	201	(7)
IV The Parish Clergy	208	(9)
6 Responses to Change: The Laity and the Church	217	(38)
I The Defence of Tradition	217	(9)
II Evangelical Environments	226	(17)
III Taxonomies of Reform	243	(12)
Part III Word and Doctrine	255	(96)
7 The Word Disseminated	257	(48)
I The Perils of Idolatry	261	(8)
II Sola Scriptura	269	(17)
III Preaching and Teaching	286	(16)
IV Idols, Words, and Texts	302	(3)
8 Theology and Worship	305	(46)
I Confessions	305	(6)
II Doctrine Before the Confessions: Henry VIII's Reign	311	(12)
III The Eucharistic Debate and Cranmerian Liturgy	323	(7)
IV Forms of Protestantism: The Second Generation	330	(4)
V Doctrines of the Church in the Later Sixteenth Century	334	(6)
VI Calvinist Consensus?	340	(7)
VII Conclusion	347	(4)
Part IV Reformations Established and Contested	351	(134)
9 Cuius Regio, Eius Religio? The Churches, Politics, and Religious Identities, 1558-1600	353	(72)
I Making Two Reformations	353	(14)
II Securing the Settlements: Scotland and England Before the mid-1580's	367	(13)
III Ireland and the Elizabethan Settlement	380	(6)
IV Defining the Reformations: Authority and History	386	(8)
V Hierarchy and Discipline	394	(8)
VI Financing the Churches	402	(10)
VII Last Decades	412	(13)
10 Reforming People and Community: Church, Clergy, and Laity, 1558-1600	425	(60)
I The Pastoral Ministry	429	(7)
II The Congregation: Leadership	436	(4)
III The Use of the Church	440	(8)
IV Patterns of Worship: Communion and the Rites of Passage	448	(9)
V The Practice of Discipline	457	(6)
VI Inclusion and Exclusion	463	(12)
VII Assimilating the Reformation?	475	(10)
Bibliography	485	(52)
Index	537