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Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Written by Peter Marshall
Narrated by Napoleon Ryan
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Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history 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. 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.
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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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Poor quality audio, it sounds like someone in a rest room and speaking through a cardboard tube
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My main complaint about this book is that the title on the dust-cover is in gold foil of such low quality that after only average reading wear and tear, my copy is now called "Heretics and Believi_s". Why gold foil? And why shitty gold foil?
So, the book is pretty great. It's truly enormous, but Marshall's writing is so good that I barely noticed--and good in a stylish way, not in the increasingly popular, almost painfully clear, one-sentence-structure-is-all-I-need way. It's a model of how to organize an historical narrative; it helps, of course, that the material is so gripping. I must also confess that Marshall seems to me to be of the slightly revisionist, post-Duffy school of thinking; Mary comes off better than you'd expect, and Edward worse. That's important, because I'd like to think that's true. Convinced Calvinists might find it rather more upsetting. Even for them, though, this is highly recommendable.