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Reformation Reputations - The Power of the Individual in English Reformation History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Reformation Reputations - The Power of the Individual in English Reformation History (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England's
complex sixteenth-century reformations. While many historians study
broad themes, such as religious moderation, this volume is centred
on the perspective that great changes are instigated not by themes,
or 'isms', but rather by people - a point recently underlined in
the 2017 quincentenary commemorations of Martin Luther's protest in
Germany. That sovereigns from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I largely
drove religious policy in Tudor England is well known. Instead, the
essays collected in this volume, inspired by the quincentenary and
based upon original research, take a novel approach, emphasizing
the agency of some of their most interesting subjects: Protestant
and Roman Catholic, clerical and lay, men and women. With an
introduction that establishes why the commemorative impulse was so
powerful in this period and explores how reputations were
constructed, perpetuated and manipulated, the authors of the nine
succeeding chapters examine the reputations of three archbishops of
Canterbury (Thomas Cranmer, Matthew Parker and John Whitgift),
three pioneering bishops' wives (Elizabeth Coverdale, Margaret
Cranmer and Anne Hooper), two Roman Catholic martyrs (John Fisher
and Thomas More), one evangelical martyr other than Cranmer (Anne
Askew), two Jesuits (John Gerard and Robert Persons) and one author
whose confessional identity remains contested (Anthony Munday).
Partly biographical, though mainly historiographical, these essays
offer refreshing new perspectives on why the selected figures are
famed (or should be famed) and discuss what their reformation
reputations tell us today.
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