Ethan H Shagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan H Shagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan H |
| FAMILY NAME | Shagan |
| SIGNATURE | SHAGAN E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hypocrisy and Humour in the English Reformation
This article examines jokes about religion, particularly religious hypocrisy, in early modern English jestbooks, from the 1520s to the 1740s. It argues that over the course of England's Long Reformation, we find more and more jokes in which the solution, or alternative, to hypocrisy is not a more robust faith, making the inward heart correspond to one's outward show of religion, but rather a more profane Christianity, making one's outward face co…
A Beautiful Ending
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity
The Birth of Modern Belief
Birth of Modern Belief
The Birth of Modern Belief
This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval…
The Birth of Modern Belief
This book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. The book focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. It shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that…
Chapter 5. The Birth Pangs of Modern Belief
The Emergence of the Church of England, c.1520–1553
This chapter describes the emergence of the Church of England from its creation by Henry VIII in 1534 until the death of Edward VI in 1553, but also glances back to the earlier development of English Protestantism. It argues that while many of the features that would later define ‘Anglicanism’ were present, those features were neither the core of the Church of England nor did they fit together in a coherent fashion. The success of recognizably ‘A…
The Devil Wins
The Essays of Patrick Collinson
This essay analyses Patrick Collinson's contributions as an essayist and writer of short‐form historical articles, with special attention to his concept of the ‘monarchical republic’ but more broadly focused on his vision of the interplay between religion and politics throughout his long career. It argues that Collinson saw politics as fundamentally a struggle of ideas, especially religious ideas, but that he downplayed the potential instability …
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen
Journal Article Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen Get access Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. 278. £60). Ethan Shagan Ethan Shagan 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541, December 2014, Page…
The Martin Marprelate Tracts
Craig Muldrew. Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness
I am always envious of social historians and other social scientists because they have data, and Craig Muldrew's new book is a data extravaganza, with no fewer than seventy-two numerical tables and graphs to delineate the complex relationship between consumption and production in early modern England. It makes important interventions in the standard of living debate and the debate over Jan de Vries's concept of “industriousness” as a necessary co…
Beyond Good and Evil
I t is a well-worn historiographical truism that early modern Europeans imag- ined their world in terms of binary oppositions. Leading historians of the 1970s like Peter Burke, Natalie Davis, and Robert Scribner, influenced by structuralist anthropology, suggested that early modern phenomena that defied twentieth-century logic-like the misrule of Carnival or belief that the pope was Antichrist-could best be understood as symbolic systems of inver…
Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God's Will in Tudor England
Argument and Authority in Early Modern England
Protestant Radicalism and Political Thought in the Reign of Henry VIII
Henry VIII's assertion of the Royal Supremacy over the Church was an epochal event in early modern English history, abolishing papal authority and in the process creating many of the tensions which would drive English political and religious developments through the Glorious Revolution. As historians of Henrician Catholicism have reminded us, however, the Royal Supremacy did not have a single meaning or a single set of implications for what the p…
Illustrating the past in Early Modern England
Treason and the State
D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 230 pp. index, bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-521-77102-1. - Volume 57 Issue 2
The English Inquisition
This article examines the relationship between religious debate and constitutional conflict in the 1590s, focusing on the status of ecclesiastical law and the right of the church courts to impose ex officio oaths upon English subjects. It argues that Richard Cosin, a client of Archbishop Whitgift and the leading apologist for the government's use of ex officio oaths, used the issue to make a series of aggressive and controversial assertions of st…
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as p…
Print, Orality and Communications in the Maid of Kent Affair
This article explores the printed and oral communications through which the sixteenth-century holy woman Elizabeth Barton publicised her political prophecies against the Henrician Reformation. Authorship of the primary printed account of Barton's early career has been misattributed, leading scholars to underestimate the number of accounts of Barton's miracles which circulated in her lifetime. This observation leads to an analysis of the media app…
The English Inquisition
This article examines the relationship between religious debate and constitutional conflict in the 1590s, focusing on the status of ecclesiastical law and the right of the church courts to impose ex officio oaths upon English subjects. It argues that Richard Cosin, a client of Archbishop Whitgift and the leading apologist for the government's use of ex officio oaths, used the issue to make a series of aggressive and controversial assertions of st…
Beyond Good and Evil
I t is a well-worn historiographical truism that early modern Europeans imag- ined their world in terms of binary oppositions. Leading historians of the 1970s like Peter Burke, Natalie Davis, and Robert Scribner, influenced by structuralist anthropology, suggested that early modern phenomena that defied twentieth-century logic-like the misrule of Carnival or belief that the pope was Antichrist-could best be understood as symbolic systems of inver…
Protestant Radicalism and Political Thought in the Reign of Henry VIII
Henry VIII's assertion of the Royal Supremacy over the Church was an epochal event in early modern English history, abolishing papal authority and in the process creating many of the tensions which would drive English political and religious developments through the Glorious Revolution. As historians of Henrician Catholicism have reminded us, however, the Royal Supremacy did not have a single meaning or a single set of implications for what the p…
Print, Orality and Communications in the Maid of Kent Affair
This article explores the printed and oral communications through which the sixteenth-century holy woman Elizabeth Barton publicised her political prophecies against the Henrician Reformation. Authorship of the primary printed account of Barton's early career has been misattributed, leading scholars to underestimate the number of accounts of Barton's miracles which circulated in her lifetime. This observation leads to an analysis of the media app…
Print, Orality and Communications in the Maid of Kent Affair
This article explores the printed and oral communications through which the sixteenth-century holy woman Elizabeth Barton publicised her political prophecies against the Henrician Reformation. Authorship of the primary printed account of Barton's early career has been misattributed, leading scholars to underestimate the number of accounts of Barton's miracles which circulated in her lifetime. This observation leads to an analysis of the media app…
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a Reformation perceived as an act of state and hence, like all early modern acts of state, negotiated between government and people. These responses included not only resistance but also significant levels of accommodation, co-operation and collaboration as p…
Treason and the State
D. Alan Orr. Treason and the State: Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xii + 230 pp. index, bibl. $55. ISBN: 0-521-77102-1. - Volume 57 Issue 2
The English Inquisition
This article examines the relationship between religious debate and constitutional conflict in the 1590s, focusing on the status of ecclesiastical law and the right of the church courts to impose ex officio oaths upon English subjects. It argues that Richard Cosin, a client of Archbishop Whitgift and the leading apologist for the government's use of ex officio oaths, used the issue to make a series of aggressive and controversial assertions of st…
Illustrating the past in Early Modern England
Protestant Radicalism and Political Thought in the Reign of Henry VIII
Henry VIII's assertion of the Royal Supremacy over the Church was an epochal event in early modern English history, abolishing papal authority and in the process creating many of the tensions which would drive English political and religious developments through the Glorious Revolution. As historians of Henrician Catholicism have reminded us, however, the Royal Supremacy did not have a single meaning or a single set of implications for what the p…
Argument and Authority in Early Modern England
Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God's Will in Tudor England
Beyond Good and Evil
I t is a well-worn historiographical truism that early modern Europeans imag- ined their world in terms of binary oppositions. Leading historians of the 1970s like Peter Burke, Natalie Davis, and Robert Scribner, influenced by structuralist anthropology, suggested that early modern phenomena that defied twentieth-century logic-like the misrule of Carnival or belief that the pope was Antichrist-could best be understood as symbolic systems of inver…
The Martin Marprelate Tracts
Craig Muldrew. Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness
I am always envious of social historians and other social scientists because they have data, and Craig Muldrew's new book is a data extravaganza, with no fewer than seventy-two numerical tables and graphs to delineate the complex relationship between consumption and production in early modern England. It makes important interventions in the standard of living debate and the debate over Jan de Vries's concept of “industriousness” as a necessary co…
Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen
Journal Article Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen Get access Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, by Markku Peltonen (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2013; pp. 278. £60). Ethan Shagan Ethan Shagan 1University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 541, December 2014, Page…
The Essays of Patrick Collinson
This essay analyses Patrick Collinson's contributions as an essayist and writer of short‐form historical articles, with special attention to his concept of the ‘monarchical republic’ but more broadly focused on his vision of the interplay between religion and politics throughout his long career. It argues that Collinson saw politics as fundamentally a struggle of ideas, especially religious ideas, but that he downplayed the potential instability …
The Devil Wins
The Emergence of the Church of England, c.1520–1553
This chapter describes the emergence of the Church of England from its creation by Henry VIII in 1534 until the death of Edward VI in 1553, but also glances back to the earlier development of English Protestantism. It argues that while many of the features that would later define ‘Anglicanism’ were present, those features were neither the core of the Church of England nor did they fit together in a coherent fashion. The success of recognizably ‘A…
The Birth of Modern Belief
This book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. The book focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. It shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that…
Chapter 5. The Birth Pangs of Modern Belief
The Birth of Modern Belief
Birth of Modern Belief
The Birth of Modern Belief
This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval…
Contesting Orthodoxies in the History of Christianity
A Beautiful Ending
Hypocrisy and Humour in the English Reformation
This article examines jokes about religion, particularly religious hypocrisy, in early modern English jestbooks, from the 1520s to the 1740s. It argues that over the course of England's Long Reformation, we find more and more jokes in which the solution, or alternative, to hypocrisy is not a more robust faith, making the inward heart correspond to one's outward show of religion, but rather a more profane Christianity, making one's outward face co…
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