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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      December 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511582011
      9780521475457
      9780521520218
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511582011
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.515kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.514kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History after 1450, History, Religion, Church History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Subjects:
    British History after 1450, History, Religion, Church History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    This book examines the effects of the English Reformation on the full spectrum of lay religion from 1540 to 1580 through an investigation of individuals and parishes in Gloucestershire. Rather than focusing on either the acceptance of Protestantism or the demise of the traditional Catholic religion, as other historians have done, it considers all shades of belief against the backdrop of shifting official religious policy. The result is the story of responses ranging from stiff resistance to eager acceptance, creating a picture of the religion of the laity which is diverse and complex, but also layered as parishes and individuals expressed their faith in ways which reflected the institutional or personal nature of their piety. Finally, while the book focuses on Gloucestershire, it reveals broad patterns of beliefs and practices which could probably be found all over England.

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    ‘… deserves to be read by students of both local history and the English Reformation in general’.

    Source: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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