Reformation in Britain and Ireland

Studies the coming of reform in the sixteenth century. This book argues for a comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Through the examination of political choices, ecclesiastical structures, and individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in these islands.

... Felicity Heal's volume is unlikely to be challenged in general outline for decades. This is a superb achievement based on a staggering range of reading: clear, and consistently sensible and judicious. It is a fitting complement to Owen Chadwick's recently published volume on the Reformation in the rest of Europe.

Klappentext
This is an innovative volume which studies the coming of reform in the sixteenth century more broadly than do traditional national narratives of religious change. It argues for an interactive and comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Through the examination of political choices, of ecclesiastical structures, and of individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in these islands.


Zusammenfassung
The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four countries/three kingdoms. The text uses a broadly chronological framework to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-Reformation churches; the political crises of the break with Rome; the development of Protestantism and changes in popular religious culture. The tools of conversion - the Bible, preaching and catechising - are accorded specific attention, as is doctrinal change. It is argued that political calculations did most to determine the success or failure of reformation, though the ideological commitment of a clerical elite was also of central significance.

Inhalt
Part 1: The Traditional Order
2: The State of the Clergy
3: Communities and Beliefs
Part 2: The Coming of Reformation
5: The Clergy in the Years of Change
6: Responses to Change: the Laity and the Church
Part 3: Word and Doctrine
8: Theology and Worship
Part 4: Reformations Established and Contested
10: Reforming People and Community: Church, Clergy, and Laity, 1558-1600

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