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Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584

Ceri Law author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:15th Jun '18

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An important new perspective on this critical intellectual and religious community, and on the conflicted nature of religious change at the time. The University of Cambridge has long been heralded as the nursery of the English Reformation: a precociously evangelical and then Puritan Tudor institution. Spanning fifty years and four reigns and based on extensive archival research, this book reveals a much more nuanced experience of religious change in this unique community. Instead of Protestant triumph, there were multiple, contested responses to royal religious policy across the sixteenth century. The University's importance as both a symbol and an agent of religious change meant that successive regimes and politicians worked hard to stamp their visions of religious uniformity onto it. It was also equipped with some of England's most talented theologians and preachers. Yet in the maze of the collegiate structure, the conformity they sought proved frustratingly elusive. The religious struggles which this book traces reveal not only the persistence ofreal doctrinal conflict in Cambridge throughout the Reformation period, but also more complex patterns of accommodation, conformity and resistance shaped by social, political and institutional context. CERI LAW is a research associate at the University of Cambridge.

A welcome entry in the historiography of the English reformation, a solid addition to studies of the way communities engaged religious change in the sixteenth century, and it certainly expands the history of Cambridge more broadly. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *
Ceri Law's Contested Reformations is an example of careful, deliberate, ancl original scholarship. * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL REVIEW *
[A] stimulating book. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *
Presents fresh and lively accounts of the life of the university over...five decades. * BRITISH CATHOLIC HISTORY *
[A]dds a great deal to our knowledge of the English Reformation and the workings of Tudor Cambridge. * Catholic Historical Review *

ISBN: 9780861933471

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 500g

245 pages