a) Compare the impact of the Henrician and Edwardian Reformations on religious life in the parishes.

b) Account for the relative compliance of parish communities with the directives of central government.

 

• E Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, chs 11-14 – essential.
• --------, The Voices of Morebath: Reformation & Rebellion in an English Village (2001) – fascinating case study.
• R Rex, Henry VIII and the English Reformation, ch 3
• R Hutton, 'The Local Impact of the Tudor Reformations' , in C Haigh ed., The English Reformation Revised and in P. Marshall ed., The Impact of the English Reformation (1997)
• ----------, The Rise and Fall of Merry England, ch 3
• R Whiting, 'Local Responses to the Henrician Reformation', in D MacCulloch ed., The Reign of Henry VIII (1995). Expanded version as Local Responses to the English Reformation.
• -------------, '"Abominable Idols": Images and Image-breaking under Henry VIII', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, (1982)
• ------------, The Blind Devotion of the People, chs 4, 5 (relevant sections)
• ------------, '"For the health of my soul": prayers for the dead in the Tudor Southwest', Southern History (1983) and in P Marshall ed., The Impact of the English Reformation
• P Marshall, 'The Rood of Boxley, the Blood of Hailes, and the Defence of the Henrician Church', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 46 (1995) -on government propaganda against superstition.
• ---------, 'Forgery and Miracles in the Reign of Henry VIII', Past and Present, 178 (2003) - develops the argument more fully. Also in Marshall, Religious Identities in the Reign of Henry VIII.
• A Kreider, English Chantries: The Road to Dissolution, intro, chs 7, 8
• P. Cunich, ‘The Dissolution of the Chantries’, in P Collinson and J Craig (eds), The Reformation in English Towns 1500-1640 (1998)
• E H Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (2003), intro, chs. 7,8
• -------------, ‘Confronting Compromise: the schism and its legacy’, in E. Shagan (ed), Catholics and the ‘Protestant Nation’ (2005)
• C Haigh, English Reformations, ch 9-10
• M Aston, England's Iconoclasts, pp 222-77
• ----------, Faith and Fire: Popular and Unpopular Religion 1350-1600, ch 9; also in P Marshall ed., The Impact of the English Reformation (1997)
• P Marshall, Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England (2002), chs 2-3 – on chantries and prayer for the dead.
• C Marsh, Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England (1998), ch. 5 (b)