Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of The debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of successive historical approaches to the English Reformation with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern historiography as well as to Reformation studies. It explores the way in which successive generations have found the Reformation relevant to their own times and have in the process rediscovered, redefined and rewritten its story. It shows that not only people who called themselves historians but also politicians, ecclesiastics, journalists and campaigners argued about interpretations of the Reformation and the motivations of its principal agents. The author also shows how, in the twentieth century, the debate was influenced by the development of history as a subject and, in the twenty-first century, by state control of the academy. Undergraduates, researchers and lecturers alike will find this an invaluable and essential companion to their studies.
- ISBN10 0719086612
- ISBN13 9780719086618
- Publish Date 10 February 2014 (first published 6 March 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English