The Post-Reformation
Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9799767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 494 |
| Pages | 1461-1463 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cel300 |
| OpenAlex | W2065439715 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
ONE of the greatest changes in the writing of history during the past twenty years has been the acceptance of ideas as forces of change in their own right. Until the 1980s, it was still common for textbooks to commence an account of a particular period by laying down a foundation of economics and demographics. Now ideology in general, and (in a time of resurgent Islamic and Christian fundamentalism) religious ideology in particular, is treated as a free-standing agent in political and social affairs. Pearson Longman, always a firm with its finger on the current educational pulse, has marked this development by commissioning a series of broad-brush studies of British history during the ‘Christian centuries’ from 600 to 2000, intended to integrate religious, political and social developments more thoroughly than has been done before. John Spurr's is the third to be published. Professor Spurr supplies three components to his task—an overarching concept, a section of narrative and another of analysis—and each of these needs to be considered in turn. His bonding concept is to declare that the sixteenth century in Britain was the period of Reformation, as an act of state and a coherent evangelical campaign, whereas the seventeenth can now be rebranded ‘the post-Reformation’. By this he means that it was concerned with the meaning and legacy of the Reformation itself, and in particular with the issue of religious diversity: in essence, it was a struggle between different sorts of religion. As a useful additional insight, he points out that this was not primarily a matter for the individual conscience, as the period did not readily think in such terms, but of a choice between kinds of religious community
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2019 (51) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |