How the English Reformation was Named

The Politics of History, 1400-1700

Benjamin Guyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-897614-1 (ISBN)

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How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, 'reformation' was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But despite referring to sixteenth-century religious change, the proper noun 'English Reformation' entered the historical lexicon only during the British civil wars of the 1640s. Anglican apologists coined this term to defend the Church of England against proponents of the Scottish Reformation, an event that contemporaries singled out for its violence and illegality. Using their neologism to denote select events from the mid-Tudor era, Anglicans crafted a historical narrative that enabled them to present a pristine vision of the English past, one that endeavoured to preserve amidst civil war, regicide, and political oppression. With the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England in 1660, apologetic narrative became historiographical habit and, eventually, historical certainty.

Benjamin M. Guyer is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He has also taught at the University of Florida, the University of Kansas, and Santa Fe College. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is a council member of the Sixteenth Century Society and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Anglican and Episcopal History.

Introduction
1: 'In Head and in Members': Discourses of Reformation, c. 1414-1563
2: Dangerous Positions: Debating Reformation, 1553-1603
3: 'That Damned Dialogue': The Reformations of Jacobean Britain, 1603-1625
4: 'This Present Reformation in England': From Civil Wars to Apologetic Consensus, 1625-1660
5: Reformed Catholics, True Protestants: Tudor Religious History in Restoration England, 1660-1685
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	368 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-897614-3 / 0198976143
ISBN-13	978-0-19-897614-1 / 9780198976141
Zustand	Neuware