The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603 (Religion, Politics and Society in Britain)

The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603 (Religion, Politics and Society in Britain)

by Alec Ryrie (Author), Alec Ryrie (Author)

Synopsis

The sixteenth century was an age of Reformation. There was religious reformation, as Protestantism came to England, Scotland and even Ireland, bringing liberation, chaos and bloodshed in its wake. And there was political reformation, as the Tudor and Stewart (later 'Stuart') monarchs made their authority felt within and beyond their kingdoms more than any of their predecessors. Together, these two reformations produced not only a new religion, but a new politics -absolutist yet pluralist, populist yet law-bound - and a new society - controlled, fractured, yet more widely engaged and empowered than ever before.

In this book, Alec Ryrie provides an authoritative overview of these momentous events, showing how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes. Drawing on the most recent research, he explains why events took the course they did - and why that course was so often an unexpected and an unlikely one.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 21 May 2009

ISBN 10: 1405835575
ISBN 13: 9781405835572
Book Overview:

A new introduction to Tudor Britain that fully integrates the religious and political aspects of the narrative, and covers the period from the perspectives of England, Scotland and Wales.


Media Reviews

Written with real verve and originality and manages to make well-worn subjects appear fresh and suprising.

Lucy Wooding, Times Higher Education

Author Bio
Alec Ryrie is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Birmingham.