Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-84

Name: Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-84
Brand: Royal Historical Society
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By Ceri Law

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The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a precociously evangelical and then puritan Tudor institution. Spanning fifty years and four reigns and based on extensive archival research, this book reveals a much more nuanced experience of religious change. Instead of Protestant triumph, there were multiple, contested responses to royal religious policy across the sixteenth century. The University's importance as both a symbol and an agent of religious change meant that successive regimes and politicians worked hard to stamp their visions of religious uniformity onto it. It was also equipped with some of England's most talented theologians and preachers. Yet in the maze of the collegiate structure, the conformity they sought proved frustratingly elusive. The religious struggles which this book traces reveal not only the persistence of real doctrinal conflict in Cambridge throughout the Reformation period, but also more complex patterns of accommodation, conformity and resistance shaped by social, political and institutional context. CERI LAW is a research associate at the University of Cambridge.

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Number of Pages:: 248
Release Date:: 2018-06-15
Publication Date:: 2018-06-15
Publisher:: Royal Historical Society
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0861933478
ISBN13:: 9780861933471
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 540 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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