Reformation without end
Subtitle: religion, politics and the past in post-revolutionary England
By: Robert G. Ingram
Series: Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain; Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781526126948
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Historiography; Religion and politics; Reformation; History; Church history
Description: "Reformation without end radically reinterprets the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they lived during 'the Enlightenment'. Instead, they thought that they still faced the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century. They faced those problems, though, in the aftermath of two bloody seventeenth-century political and religious revolutions. This book is about the ways that the eighteenth-century English debated the causes and consequences of those seventeenth-century revolutions and the thing which they thought had caused them, the Reformation. Reformation without end draws on a wide array of manuscript sources to show how authors crafted and pitched their works."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.