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New perspectives on the English Reformation

Capern, Amanda; Capern, Amanda L.

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Dr Amanda Capern A.L.Capern@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Women's History

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Dr Amanda Capern A.L.Capern@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Women's History



Abstract

The historiography of the English Reformation has been driven by several key themes for three or four decades: the chronology of religious change and the success or failure of Protestantism to establish itself, the position of Puritanism vis-à-vis Church conformity, the role of Arminianism (anti-Calvinism) in doctrinal and ecclesiological debates and its impact on ecclesiastical politics and, more latterly, the continuities of ideas and beliefs between medieval Catholicism and Reformation Protestantism. This survey article on six new books in the field of Reformation studies argues that while the current historiography is generating very exciting work on the religious mentalité of early-modern English people and the transmission of ideas across the Catholic-Protestant divide, as well as generating a thriving debate on Calvinist consensus (or not) and the rise of Arminianism (or not), there are further rich seams to mine that incorporate gender into the analysis and that add the Atlantic World perspective to that of the European context for Reformation. © 2009 Association for the Journal of Religious History.

Citation

Capern, A. L. (2009). New perspectives on the English Reformation. The Journal of religious history, 33(2), 235-253. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00796.x

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jun 25, 2018
Publication Date 2009-06
Journal JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Print ISSN 0022-4227
Electronic ISSN 1467-9809
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 33
Issue 2
Pages 235-253
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00796.x
Keywords Religious studies; History
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/391236
Publisher URL https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9809.2009.00796.x