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The Quiet Reformation

Magistrates and the Emergence of Protestantism in Tudor Norwich

by Muriel McClendon

  • Hardback
  • 360 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.1 x 22.6 x 3.1 cm

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By examining the unusual course of religious change in Tudor Norwich, this work significantly revises the study of both the Reformation and the history of religious toleration in England. It shows that though Norwich experienced a genuine and far-reaching reformation in the sixteenth century, even becoming a hub of Puritan activity in the Elizabethan era, it did so without the breakdown of community, habitual intolerance, and widespread persecution that has been the focus of recent scholarly studies of the period. Drawing on extensive and largely unexploited municipal archives, the author argues that the course and outcome of the Reformation in Norwich were shaped in important ways by the city s magistrates. She demonstrates that the magistrates, who were religiously divided themselves, practiced a de facto religious toleration throughout the sixteenth century. Although they endorsed each change in Tudor religious policy in a formal sense, they neglected to enforce conformity and to discipline religious dissidents in their jurisdiction. Instead, they acted to defuse local religious disputes without notifying Church or central government officials.They did not extend this de facto toleration out of respect for the beliefs of dissenters or any idea of religious diversity. Rather, they executed a political strategy to deflect outside attention from religious affairs in the city and thus keep civic authority in their own hands.
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  • Author

    Muriel McClendon

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    January 1999

  • Weight

    577g

  • Page Count

    360

  • Dimensions

    15.1 x 22.6 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804735131

  • ISBN-10

    0804735131

  • Eden Code

    1159580

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