A People's Reformation: Building the Englishlish Church in the Elizabethan Parish Volume 98 (en Inglés)
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The Elizabethan settlement, and the Church of Englishland that emerged from it, made way for a theological reformation, an institutional reformation, and a high political reformation. It was a reformation that changed history, birthed an Anglican communion, and would eventually launch new wars, new language, and even a new national identity. A People's Reformation offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the Englishlish Reformation and the roots of the Church of Englishland. Drawing on archival material from across the United States and Britain, Lucy Kaufman examines the growing influence of state authority and the slow building of a robust state church from the bottom up in post-Reformation Englishland. Situating the people of Englishland at the heart of this story, the book argues that while the Reformation shaped everyday lives, it was also profoundly shaped by them in turn. Englishland became a Protestant nation not in spite of its people but through their active social, political, and religious participation in creating a new church in Englishland.A People's Reformation explores this world from the pews, reimagining the lived experience and fierce negotiation of church and state in the parishes of Elizabethan Englishland. It places ordinary people at the centre of the local, cultural, and political history of the Reformation and its remarkable, transformative effect on the world.