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Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584

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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.

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ISBN: 9780861933471
Publication date: 15th June 2018
Author: Ceri Law, Royal Historical Society Great Britain
Publisher: Royal Historical Society an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 245 pages
Series: Studies in History
Genres: European history: Renaissance
History of religion
Christianity