This history tells the story of how the English, over three generations, adapted to the religious changes forced upon them by the Reformation and, in doing so, radically reconstructed their culture.
About the Author
Norman Jones is Professor and Chair of History at Utah State University. His previous publications include Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (1982), God and the Moneylenders (Blackwell Publishers, 1989), The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (Blackwell Publishers, 1992) and The Parliaments of Elizabethan English (Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
Features
Injects new questions into scholarly discussion of sixteenth-century England.
Focuses on the social aspects of the Reformation, making it accessible as an introduction to the subject.
Sees the Reformation as starting a chain of social, political and cultural responses that gave rise to an English Protestant culture.
Explains how individuals and institutions refashioned themselves in the face of rapid change.
