Examines controversial issues surrounding the impact of the Reformation on the everyday lives of people in Tudor England. Material is arranged thematically rather than by reign, with sections on religious institutions, practices, motivations, and influences. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. This book represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach to discussing the impact of the English Reformation upon the English People. This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues in early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people. It represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach. Drawing on the authors own research in church arts as well as in written records, like wills and parish accounts, and evaluating the findings of other recent historian, it forcefully challenges several of the currently fashionable interpretations of this crucial era. This book represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach to discussing the impact of the English Reformation upon the English People. This book represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach to discussing the impact of the English Reformation upon the English People. This major new study re-examines one of the most controversial issues in early modern history: the impact of the English Reformation upon the English people. It represents an advance from the conventional reign-by-reign narrative to a more incisively thematic approach. Drawing on the authors own research in church arts as well as in written records, like wills and parish accounts, and evaluating the findings of other recent historian, it forcefully challenges several of the currently fashionable interpretations of this crucial era.
