Title: Religion, literature, and politics in post-Reformation England, 1540-1688
Description: This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional treatises, political treatises and histories.

It breaks down normal distinctions between Tudor and Stuart, pre- and post-Restoration periods to reveal a coherent (though not all serene and untroubled) post-Reformation culture struggling with major issues of belief, practice, and authority.
Subjects: Church history, English literature, History, Great britain, church history, 16th century, Great britain, church history, 17th century, Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: Tudors, 1485-1603, Stuarts, 1603-1714, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, 16th century