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Commonwealth and the English Reformation
Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 14831560
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Whilst much recent research has dealt with the popular response to the religious change ushered in during the mid-Tudor period, this book focuses not just on the response to broad liturgical and doctrinal change, but also looks at how theological and reform messages could be utilized among local leaders and civic elites. It is this cohort that has often been neglected in previous efforts to ascertain the often elusive position of the common woman or man.Using the Vale of Gloucester as a case study, the book refocuses attention onto the concept of "commonwealth" and links it to a gradual, but long-standing dissatisfaction with local religious houses. It shows how monasteries, endowed initially out of the charitable impulses of elites, increasingly came to depend increasingly on lay stewards to remain viable. During the economic downturn of the mid-Tudor period, when urban and landed elites refocused their attention on restoring the commonwealth which they believed had broken down, they increasingly viewed the charity offered by religious houses as insufficient to meet the local needs. In such a climate the Protestant social gospel seemed to provide a valid alternative to which many people gravitated.Holding to scrutiny the revisionist revolution of the past twenty years, the book reopens debate and challenges conventional thinking about the ways the traditional church lost influence in the late middle ages, positing the idea that the problems with the religious houses were not just the creation of the reformers but had rather a long history. In so doing it offers a more complete picture of reform that goes beyond head-counting by looking at the political relationships and how they were affected by religious ideas to bring about change.
Ashgate Publishing Ltd; July 2010
333 pages; ISBN 9780754699132
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333 pages; ISBN 9780754699132
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Subject categories
- Academic > History > History of Great Britain > England > Local history and description > Other cities, towns, etc., A-Z
- Academic > History > History of Great Britain > England > History > Political, military, naval, and Air Force history.
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History > Military > World War I
- Religion > History
- History > World
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- History > Modern
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9781409400455
9780754699132
0754699137