The Blind Devotion of the People by Robert Whiting
The religious revolution known as the 'Reformation' must rank among the most crucial and transforming events in English history. Yet its original reception by the English people remains largely obscure. Did they welcome the innovations - or did they resist? By what internal motivations were their responses determined? And by what external influences were their attitudes shaped? These are the key issues explored by Robert Whiting in this major investigation, based primarily on original research in the south-west. Dr Whiting's controversial conclusion is that for most of the population the Reformation was less a conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism than a transition from religious commitment to religious passivity or even indifference.-
Popular Politics and the English Reformation
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Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
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Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 16501750
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Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 15501640
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John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
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The Chief Governors
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The Early Elizabethan Polity
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London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
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Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 16601685
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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Georgian Monarchy
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The Family of Love in English Society, 15501630
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Reason and Religion in the English Revolution
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Godly Kingship in Restoration England
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England's Second Reformation
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Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution
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The Common Peace
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William III and the Godly Revolution
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Europe and the Making of England, 16601760
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Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
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Frenzy in Early Modern England
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649
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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Godly Reading
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Reformation Unbound
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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
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Unquiet Lives
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The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 15411641
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland
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Religion and the Book in Early Modern England
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Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers
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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
'Not for a long time has such a wealth of evidence upon popular religion at the Reformation been collected, nor so meticulously organized … No one interested in the Reformation should miss this scholarly and significant book' Susan Brigden, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'[The Blind Devotion of the People] delves down beyond the landed elite into the ranks of 'ordinary' people. It uses endowments and architecture, drama and writing, to brilliant effect … Its thumbnail sketches are superb … This is a rounded and convincing, and often moving, analysis of a society faced with the shattering of its traditions, deeply enjoyable to read. And it is a model of what could and should be done with that most fascinating and elusive of historical problems.' Jenny Wormald, The Glasgow Herald
'[The Blind Devotion of the People] delves down beyond the landed elite into the ranks of 'ordinary' people. It uses endowments and architecture, drama and writing, to brilliant effect … Its thumbnail sketches are superb … This is a rounded and convincing, and often moving, analysis of a society faced with the shattering of its traditions, deeply enjoyable to read. And it is a model of what could and should be done with that most fascinating and elusive of historical problems.' Jenny Wormald, The Glasgow Herald
Robert Whiting is a Principal Lecturer in History at York Saint John University. The Blind Devotion of the People (1989) and Local Reactions to the English Reformation (1998) are two of his previous works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521424394 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521424399 |
| Title | The Blind Devotion of the People |
| Author | Robert Whiting |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Early Modern British History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1991-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 316 |
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