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Heretics and Believers - History of the English Reformation, A
Heretics and Believers - History of the English Reformation, A
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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description
Peter Marshall's sweeping new history-the first major overview for general readers in a generation-argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of 'reform' in various competing guises.
Manylion y cynnyrch / Product details
- ISBN 13
- 9780300234589
- Gwales Code
- gwales.com.9780300234589
- Gwerthwr / Vendor
- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
- Long Title
- Heretics and Believers - History of the English Reformation, A
- Awdur / Author
- Marshall, Peter
- Current Price ex VAT
- £16.99
- Current Price inc VAT
- £16.99
- Availability Status (EN)
- Non-Stock Item - Ordered on request
- Availability Status (CY)
- Archebir yn ôl y galw
- Dyddiad cyhoeddi / Publication Date
- 2018-03-02
- Cyhoeddwr / Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Media Type (EN)
- Paperback / softback
- Media Type (CY)
- Clawr meddal
- Pages
- 672 pages
- Size
- 140 × 216 mm
- Language Code
- English
- Categori / Category
- CY: Hanes, Hanes Lleol, Arferion Gwlad, Llên Gwerin (yn Saesneg) | EN: History, Welsh Life and Customs, Local History, Folk Tales (in English)
- Is-gategori / Subcategory
- CY: 500-1536 (yn Saesneg) | EN: 500-1536 (in English)
Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography
Peter Marshall, a native of the Orkney Islands, has since 2006 been Professor of History at the University of Warwick, and is a leading expert in the history of the Reformation and its impact in the British Isles and beyond. He is a two times winner of the Harold J. Grimm Prize for Reformation History, and has been shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Wolfson History Prize for his book Heretics and Believers. He is a frequent reviewer for the TLS, Literary Review, Tablet and other periodicals, and a regular lecturer to school and community groups. Peter is married with three daughters, and lives in Leamington Spa.
Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review
Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora's Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life. With sensitivity to individual experience as well as masterfully synthesizing historical and institutional developments, Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small, from monarchs and bishops to ordinary families and ecclesiastics, against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of "religion" itself. This engaging history reveals what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.
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