Jonathan Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8581-3366 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Your Poore Distressed Suppliant’
This article explores the relationship(s) between ‘madness’, emotion and the archive in early modern England, taking as its case study the letters of British Library Lansdowne MS vol. 99, sent between c . 1570 and c . 1600 to the government of Elizabethan England and annotated at several stages in their history to describe their authors and contents as ‘mad’. Firstly, by examining the complex history of the archive, it demonstrates the potential …
Strange Enthusiastical Exhortations’
This article uses letters from BL, ms Lansdowne 99 to explore how a diverse group of individuals experiencing mental and emotional distress utilised religious ideas as a primary means of interpreting their experience and expressing themselves to those in authority in Elizabethan England. It shifts emphasis away from the causes and towards the construction and experience of distress. It argues that such letters shed important light on the characte…
From Rejection to Reconciliation
The idea that Protestantism in post-Reformation England was inherently hostile to the visual arts has a long history and has become embedded across an interdisciplinary scholarship and within popular consciousness. While more recent historiography addresses numerous exceptions to this prevailing trend, this article provides a new assessment of how English Protestantism in a more positive mood not only came to terms with the image but actively emb…
Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe
This chapter provides an overview of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in Europe. It begins by establishing the significance of the Reformation and commenting on recent trends in historical scholarship. An outline of theological change during the period follows, before consideration of the political dimension of religious reform across Europe, including the position of religious ‘radicals’, and the development of theories of resistance aga…
Rosamund Oates. Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical: Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation is an impressive and important monograph, Rosamund Oates’s first. The “moderate radical” of the title, Tobie Matthew, was successively dean of Christ Church Oxford and Durham, and subsequently bishop of Durham and archbishop of York. Moderate Radical is somewhat less and substantially more than simply biography: rather, it is a shrewd and perceptive account of the English Reformation, fr…
The Reformation of the Decalogue
Willis, Jonathan. The Reformation of the Decalogue: Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c. 1485–1625. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2018, pp. 7-227), on Érudit
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: essays in honour of John Walter." Social History, 43(3), pp. 400–401
Thomas Albert Howard, Remembering the Reformation
The Reformation of the Decalogue
The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself. Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and Puritanism and popular re…
Reformation Unbound
This is a smart book. Published as part of the ‘Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History’ series, this monograph is Karl Gunther’s first. Many first books can be (fairly or unfairly) criticised for being somewhat narrow in scope, a common consequence of the process of researching and writing a doctoral thesis on a tightly defined topic. This book is physically rather slim and unassuming, but its intellectual horizons are extremely broad,…
Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England
'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part, …
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
The Decalogue, Patriarchy and Domestic Religious Education in Reformation England
The Decalogue was central to religious education in Reformation England, but this had not always been the case. The early Christian communities sought to distance themselves from the Ten Commandments and what they saw as the legalism of the Jewish faith, while the Middle Ages saw the ascendency of a parallel moral tradition: that of the seven deadly sins. Although the Decalogue never disappeared entirely from Christian life, by the fourteenth cen…
Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642
The Reformation of the Landscape
Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History – By Alexandra Kess
Nature, Music and the Reformation in England
The story of music in the Elizabethan Church is, in many ways, an embodiment of the relationship between two larger, competing and often contradictory discourses: those of Renaissance and Reformation. As Alexandra Walsham noted in the introduction to Providence in Early Modern England , published in 1999, there is a growing conviction that too much ink has been spilt arguing about the pace, geography and social distribution of conversion and chan…
The Reformation in Rhyme
By These Means the Sacred Discourses Sink More Deeply into the Minds of Men’
This article seeks to cast fresh light on the connections between music, education and the Reformation in Elizabethan England. Plato and Aristotle attributed to music a sovereign role and efficacy in education, and these notions were seized upon by religious reformers during the sixteenth century. The power of music to aid in the processes of learning and the absorption of holy doctrine made it an invaluable tool of religious pedagogy even in the…
From Rejection to Reconciliation
The idea that Protestantism in post-Reformation England was inherently hostile to the visual arts has a long history and has become embedded across an interdisciplinary scholarship and within popular consciousness. While more recent historiography addresses numerous exceptions to this prevailing trend, this article provides a new assessment of how English Protestantism in a more positive mood not only came to terms with the image but actively emb…
By These Means the Sacred Discourses Sink More Deeply into the Minds of Men’
This article seeks to cast fresh light on the connections between music, education and the Reformation in Elizabethan England. Plato and Aristotle attributed to music a sovereign role and efficacy in education, and these notions were seized upon by religious reformers during the sixteenth century. The power of music to aid in the processes of learning and the absorption of holy doctrine made it an invaluable tool of religious pedagogy even in the…
Nature, Music and the Reformation in England
The story of music in the Elizabethan Church is, in many ways, an embodiment of the relationship between two larger, competing and often contradictory discourses: those of Renaissance and Reformation. As Alexandra Walsham noted in the introduction to Providence in Early Modern England , published in 1999, there is a growing conviction that too much ink has been spilt arguing about the pace, geography and social distribution of conversion and chan…
The Reformation in Rhyme
Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History – By Alexandra Kess
The Reformation of the Landscape
Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons, 1558-1642
The Decalogue, Patriarchy and Domestic Religious Education in Reformation England
The Decalogue was central to religious education in Reformation England, but this had not always been the case. The early Christian communities sought to distance themselves from the Ten Commandments and what they saw as the legalism of the Jewish faith, while the Middle Ages saw the ascendency of a parallel moral tradition: that of the seven deadly sins. Although the Decalogue never disappeared entirely from Christian life, by the fourteenth cen…
Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England
'Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England' breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England, through a closely focused study of the relationship between the practice of religious music and the complex process of Protestant identity formation. Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. But in large part, …
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
The Reformation of the Decalogue
The Reformation of the Decalogue tells two important but previously untold stories: of how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, and of the ways in which the Ten Commandments helped to shape the English Reformation itself. Adopting a thematic structure, it contributes new insights to the history of the English Reformation, covering topics such as monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and Puritanism and popular re…
Reformation Unbound
This is a smart book. Published as part of the ‘Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History’ series, this monograph is Karl Gunther’s first. Many first books can be (fairly or unfairly) criticised for being somewhat narrow in scope, a common consequence of the process of researching and writing a doctoral thesis on a tightly defined topic. This book is physically rather slim and unassuming, but its intellectual horizons are extremely broad,…
The Reformation of the Decalogue
Willis, Jonathan. The Reformation of the Decalogue: Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c. 1485–1625. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2018, pp. 7-227), on Érudit
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: essays in honour of John Walter." Social History, 43(3), pp. 400–401
Thomas Albert Howard, Remembering the Reformation
Rosamund Oates. Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical: Tobie Matthew and the English Reformation is an impressive and important monograph, Rosamund Oates’s first. The “moderate radical” of the title, Tobie Matthew, was successively dean of Christ Church Oxford and Durham, and subsequently bishop of Durham and archbishop of York. Moderate Radical is somewhat less and substantially more than simply biography: rather, it is a shrewd and perceptive account of the English Reformation, fr…
Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe
This chapter provides an overview of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in Europe. It begins by establishing the significance of the Reformation and commenting on recent trends in historical scholarship. An outline of theological change during the period follows, before consideration of the political dimension of religious reform across Europe, including the position of religious ‘radicals’, and the development of theories of resistance aga…
From Rejection to Reconciliation
The idea that Protestantism in post-Reformation England was inherently hostile to the visual arts has a long history and has become embedded across an interdisciplinary scholarship and within popular consciousness. While more recent historiography addresses numerous exceptions to this prevailing trend, this article provides a new assessment of how English Protestantism in a more positive mood not only came to terms with the image but actively emb…
Your Poore Distressed Suppliant’
This article explores the relationship(s) between ‘madness’, emotion and the archive in early modern England, taking as its case study the letters of British Library Lansdowne MS vol. 99, sent between c . 1570 and c . 1600 to the government of Elizabethan England and annotated at several stages in their history to describe their authors and contents as ‘mad’. Firstly, by examining the complex history of the archive, it demonstrates the potential …
Strange Enthusiastical Exhortations’
This article uses letters from BL, ms Lansdowne 99 to explore how a diverse group of individuals experiencing mental and emotional distress utilised religious ideas as a primary means of interpreting their experience and expressing themselves to those in authority in Elizabethan England. It shifts emphasis away from the causes and towards the construction and experience of distress. It argues that such letters shed important light on the characte…
History (15 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Art (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Protestantism (10 works) · Religious studies (9 works)