Reformation to Revolution

<p>Few periods of English history have been so subject to `revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It<br> * draws together thirteen articles culled from familiar and also less accessible sources<br> * embraces revisionist and counter-revisionist viewpoints<br> * combines controversial works on both politics and religion<br> * covers Tudor as well as early Stuart England<br> * includes helpful glossary, explanatory headnotes and suggestions for further reading.<br> These carefully edited and introduced essays draw on the new evidence of newsletters and ballads and ritual, as well as the more traditional sources, to offer a new and broader understanding of this transformative era of English history.</p> Introduction Part I: Revising Religion 1. The Recent Historiography of the English Reformation Christopher Haigh 2. Protestant Culture and the Cultural Revolution Patrick Collinson 3. Puritanism, Arminianism and Counter-Revolution Nicholas Tyacke 4. Archbishop Laud Kevin Sharpe 5. Arminianism and the Court 1625-1629 Peter White Part II: Revising Politics 6. Parliament in the Reign of Elizabeth I Geoffrey Elton 7. England in 1637 Conrad Russell 8. The Coming of War John Morrill Part III: Responding to Revisionism 9. The Early Expansion of Protestantism in England A.G. Dickens 10. Calvinism and the English Church 1570-1635 Peter Lake 11. Popular Politics Before the Civil War David Underdown 12. News and Politics in Early Seventeenth-century England Richard Cust 13. Local History and the Origins of the Civil War Ann Hughes