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The Quiet Reformation - Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich (Hardcover)
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The Quiet Reformation - Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich (Hardcover)
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By examining the unusual course of religious change in Tudor
Norwich, this book significantly revises the study of both the
Reformation and the history of religious toleration in England. It
shows that though Norwich experienced a genuine and far-reaching
reformation in the sixteenth century, even becoming a hub of
Puritan activity in the Elizabethan era, it did so without the
breakdown of community, habitual intolerance, and widespread
persecution that has been the focus of recent scholarly studies of
the period.
Drawing on extensive and largely unexploited municipal archives,
the author argues that the course and outcome of the Reformation in
Norwich were shaped in important ways by the city's magistrates.
She demonstrates that the magistrates, who were religiously divided
themselves, practiced a "de facto" religious toleration throughout
the sixteenth century. Although they endorsed each change in Tudor
religious policy in a formal sense, they neglected to enforce
conformity and to discipline religious dissidents in their
jurisdiction. Instead, they acted to defuse local religious
disputes without notifying Church or central government officials.
They did not extend this "de facto" toleration out of respect for
the beliefs of dissenters or any idea of religious diversity.
Rather, they executed a political strategy to deflect outside
attention from religious affairs in the city and thus keep civic
authority in their own hands.
In showing that conflict and persecution were not inescapable
consequences of religious change in the sixteenth century, this
book challenges the received assumption of historians about the
implacability of religious conflict in Reformation England. It
conclusively shows that religious coexistence was possible, and in
Norwich, exercised for most of the Tudor period, over a full
century before most historians have commonly traced its emergence.
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