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Synopsis
The concern of this collection of essays is to redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation. Seven case studies of the fortunes of the Reformation in the North, the West Midlands, the Thames Valley, and the East are followed by four thematic studies. These studies investigate the financial and institutional entrails of the Reformation changes as they redistributed endowments and resources with implications for urban parishes, urban clergy and the townsmen and their ruling elites. The last two essays bring us to some of the cultural reverberations of religious change.
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About the Author
Patrick Collinson is a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and formerly Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge.
John Craig is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Review
'Was religious change forced on people from above or did it well up from changed attitudes and beliefs of ordinary people? Did the Reformation occur suddenly, as new statutes were passed and new Prayer Books printed, or did it take decades for reforms to be assimilated? Perhaps most important, what was the relationship between civic and religious leaders - mayors and aldermen, and rectors, vicars, or deans? These questions can only be answered by local studies such as those presented in this volume.' - Stanford Lehmberg, Church History '...a colourful map of 16th- and early 17th-century urban England.' - Jane Facey, Church Times
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312214251
- ISBN 13 9780312214258
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages335
- EditorCollinson Patrick, Craig John
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