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The Pilgrims' Complaint - A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North (Paperback)
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The Pilgrims' Complaint - A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North (Paperback)
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
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The Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising in the north of England
against Henry VIII's religious policies, has long been recognised
as a crucial point in the fortunes of the English Reformation.
Historians have long debated the motives of the rebels and what
effects they had on government policy. In this new study, however,
Michael Bush takes a fresh approach, examining the wealth of
textual evidence left by the pilgrimage of grace to reconstruct the
wider social, political and religious attitudes of northern society
in the early Tudor period. More than simply a reassessment of the
events of October 1536, the book examines the mass of surviving
evidence - the rebels' proclamations, rumour-mongering bills,
oaths, manifestos, petitions, songs, prophetic rhymes, eye-witness
accounts and confessions - in order to illuminate and explore the
kind of grass-roots feelings that are often so hard to pin down. He
concludes that the evidence points to a much more complex situation
than has often been assumed, revealing much more than simply a
desire for the country to return to the old religion and familiar
ways. Rather, this book demonstrates how the rebels sought to use
the language of custom and tradition to bolster their own political
and economic positions in a rapidly changing world. It reveals a
populace at once conservative and radical, able to judge innovation
and change in relation to its own benefit and ultimately able to
advance a coherent programme of reform. Whilst this programme was
carefully couched in language supportive of the traditional orderly
society, it nevertheless carried within it more radical proposals,
which proved extremely challenging to the monarchy, government and
church, who eventually closed ranks to bring the uprising to an
end. As both an exploration of the causes and aims of the
pilgrimage of grace, and the wider religious, social and political
attitudes of northern England, this book has much to offer the
student of the period.
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