- Hardcover: 356 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford (11 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198207735
- ISBN-13: 978-0198207733
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.7 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,378,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a very good book. Well written, judicious, thoroughly researched, with generous acknowledgements to the work of others in the field, the book might be thought to be a work of synthesis. It is in fact much more. It brings a new perspective to the on-going debate on the English Reformation, tells the reader much that is new on the doctrinal shifts that took place, and places it all in the context of social and cultural movement. (theological book review )
This is a book that is a pleasure to read and will appeal to many a general reader who is tempted to pick it up; its style is accessible, its argument clear. It goes without saying that is has much to teach undergraduates, graduates and even teachers of the English Reformation. (theological book review )
... its implications go far beyond the circumscribed academic field of "death studies", and it will be essential reading for all students of the social and cultural history of the Reformation. (Arnold Hunt, Times Literary Supplement )
... intricately structured and carefully researched ... Marshall is remorselessly honest and eclectic in his choice of examples, and the result is a fascinating web of intersecting themes and personalities. There is already a large literature on this subject, but this is the overview which we have needed to make sense of the bewildering detail. (Archive for Reformation History )
How people in early modern England thought they could relate to the dead is the subject of Peter Marshall's insightful and luminously written Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. (The Way )
... excellent ... valuable addition to the literature ... Marshall's book is the study of a central theme of peoples' lives in medieval England and how they coped with its disappearance. This elevates his book in importance and places it in the category of one of the most important books in religious history to have been written in the last two decades. It will be an indispensable book for students of the Reformation and for the religious life of England after the Reformation. (H-Albion )
An admirable treatment of a neglected subject ... This is a book with a wide compass and a wealth of interesting topics ... the research is exhaustive, the writing clear and attractive, and the judgements wise. (Church Times )
masterly scholarship and measured judgement. (Folk Life, Volume 44 )
This is a book that is a pleasure to read and will appeal to many a general reader who is tempted to pick it up; its style is accessible, its argument clear. It goes without saying that is has much to teach undergraduates, graduates and even teachers of the English Reformation. (theological book review )
... its implications go far beyond the circumscribed academic field of "death studies", and it will be essential reading for all students of the social and cultural history of the Reformation. (Arnold Hunt, Times Literary Supplement )
... intricately structured and carefully researched ... Marshall is remorselessly honest and eclectic in his choice of examples, and the result is a fascinating web of intersecting themes and personalities. There is already a large literature on this subject, but this is the overview which we have needed to make sense of the bewildering detail. (Archive for Reformation History )
How people in early modern England thought they could relate to the dead is the subject of Peter Marshall's insightful and luminously written Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England. (The Way )
... excellent ... valuable addition to the literature ... Marshall's book is the study of a central theme of peoples' lives in medieval England and how they coped with its disappearance. This elevates his book in importance and places it in the category of one of the most important books in religious history to have been written in the last two decades. It will be an indispensable book for students of the Reformation and for the religious life of England after the Reformation. (H-Albion )
An admirable treatment of a neglected subject ... This is a book with a wide compass and a wealth of interesting topics ... the research is exhaustive, the writing clear and attractive, and the judgements wise. (Church Times )
masterly scholarship and measured judgement. (Folk Life, Volume 44 )
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This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no 'middle place' of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth. This was no remote theological proposition, but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenth-century English people, and the ways in which their Church and society were organized. This book illuminates the (sometimes ambivalent) attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in pre-Reformation religious culture, and traces (up to about 1630) the uncertain progress of the 'reformation of the dead' attempted by Protestant authorities, as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world. It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife, of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts, and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of post-Reformation England. Together these topics constitute an important case-study in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation. The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship, addressing questions posed by 'revisionist' historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture, and by 'post-revisionists' about the penetration of reformed ideas. Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant 'marker' of religious and cultural change, but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole, and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses.
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