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This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenth-century English people, and the ways in which their Church and society were organized.
This book illuminates the (sometimes ambivalent) attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in pre-Reformation religious culture, and traces (up to about 1630) the uncertain progress of the 'reformation of the dead' attempted by Protestant authorities, as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world. It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife, of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts, and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of post-Reformation England. Together these topics constitute an important case-study in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation.
The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship, addressing questions posed by 'revisionist' historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture, and by 'post-revisionists' about the penetration of reformed ideas. Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant 'marker' of religious and cultural change, but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole, and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses.

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Peter Marshall is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick.
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"[M]ajor contribution to revisionist historical literature on the English Reformation...Marshall works his way through wills, ecclesiastical court documents, churchwardens' accounts, and the results of episcopal visitations with great balance, skill, and sophistication. Another major contribution of Marshall's work is his analysis of anticlericalism."--Church History


"An original and richly detailed study of the parochial priesthood in the English church from Henry VII to the Protestant Edward VI."--Religious Studies Review


"Marshall's interesting and well-documented study enhances our knowledge of lay attitudes"--Albion


"[A] readable, historically sound and well-balanced study which constitutes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the early English Reformation."--Theological Book Review


"[A] judicious book. Marshall deftly steers the reader through a wide range of sources...We emerge... with an enlarged perception of prevailing platitudes as well as changing attitudes."--Times Literary Supplement


"[M]akes a scholarly and nuanced contribution to the debate...Dr Marshall has produces an impressive analysis of the attitudes of early Tudor parishioners to their priests which does indeed, as he intended, 'illuminate something of the nature of 'popular religion' in the early sixteenth century, and the impact of reform on the interaction of the ordinary Christian and his pastor'."--English Historical Review


"Beliefs and the Dead represents the state of the art. This is intellectual history of the finest kind, grounded in evidence, conscious of chronology, and sensitive to social and cultural setting."--Renaissance Quarterly


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  • PublisherOxford University Press
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0199273723
  • ISBN 13 9780199273720
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