J.P.Sommerville

V: THE EARLY REFORMATION

  Q. 'How popular was the early Reformation'?

Introductory

1. C Haigh, 'The recent historiography of the English Reformation' Historical Journal 25 (1982) (superb summary of the whole field)
2. AG Dickens, The English Reformation (strongly pushing the 'from below' interpretation)
3.  JJ Scarisbrick, The Reformation and the English people (strongly opposes Dickens' interpretation)
4. E Duffy, The stripping of the altars: traditional religion in England 1400-1580 (important, full scale attempt to vindicate the Catholic view)
5. Claire Cross, Church and people
6. C Haigh (ed.) The English Reformation revised
7. Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland. Oxford History of the Christian Church. OUP 2003
8. Norman Jones, The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002

Anticlericalism and the clergy

9. Simon Fish, A supplication for the beggars, ed FJ Furnivall & JW Cowper (Early English Text Society), 1871
10. A H Thompson, The English parish clergy and their organisation in the later middle ages
11. P Heath, The English parish clergy on the eve of the Reformation
12. M Bowker, The secular clergy in the diocese of Lincoln
13.  A Ogle, The tragedy of Lollards' tower

Religion and politics

14. JJ Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (especially for the role of Wolsey)
15. Rory McEntegart, Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 2002
16. Clare Kellar, Scotland, England, and the Reformation, 1534-1561, OUP 2003.
17. Diarmaid MacCulloch. The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. New York, 1999.

Heresy and politics

18. JA Guy, The public career of Sir Thomas More
19. M Bowker 'The commons' supplication against the ordinaries in the light of some archidiaconal acta' Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 21 (1971)

Evangelism

20. JF Davis, 'The trials of Thomas Bilney and the English Reformation' Historical Journal, 24 (1981) (defines Evangelism)
21. Maria Dowling & Joy Shakespeare, 'Religion and politics in mid-Tudor England through the eyes of an English protestant woman: the recollections of Rose Hickman' Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 1981 (connects Evangelism with Anne Boleyn)
22. Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2002
23. Susan Wabuda, Preaching during the English Reformation. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. CUP 2002.

 

  Religion and faction

24. EW Ives, 'Faction at the court of Henry VIII: the fall of Anne Boleyn' History 57 (1972)
25. EW Ives, Anne Boleyn
26. RM Warnicke 'Sexual heresy at the court of Henry VIII', Historical Journal 30 (1987)
27. P Clark, English provincial society chapter 2
28. Susan Brigden 'Popular disturbance and the fall of Thomas Cromwell and the reformers, 1539-40' Historical Journal, 24 (1981)
29. Muriel St Clare Byrne, ed., The Lisle papers, vols V & VI (chapters 12-4)
30. Greg Walker, Persuasive Fictions: Faction, Faith and Political Culture in the Reign of Henry VIII Scolar Press 1996
31. Greg Walker, 'Rethinking the fall of Anne Boleyn' The Historical Journal 45 (2002)
    
     

The Reformation and the localities

32. GR Elton, Policy and police (on the enforcement of the reformation)
33.  P Clark, English provincial society
34. M Bowker The Henrician Reformation: the diocese of Lincoln under John Longland, 1521-1547
35. C Haigh, Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire
36. D MacCulloch 'Catholic and puritan in Elizabethan Suffolk' Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, 72 (1981)
37. R Whiting, The blind devotion of the people: popular religion and the English Reformation (this is one of the fullest  local studies)
38. Ethan H. Shagan,. Popular Politics and the English Reformation. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Series. Cambridge: CUP 2003

The Dissolution

39. D Knowles, The Religious orders in England: III The Tudor age
40. Joyce Youings, The dissolution of the monasteries

Iconoclasm

41. J Phillips, The reformation of images: the destruction of art in England, 1535-1660
42. M. Aston, England's iconoclasts : I. Laws against images
43. Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson, Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. Textuality and the Visual Image. Oxford: OUP 2002
    [See also 4 above]

Catholicism

44. Christopher Haigh 'The continuity of Catholicism in the English Reformation' Past and Present, 93, 1981
45. Lucy E. C. Wooding, Rethinking Catholicism in Reformation England. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000
46. Thomas F Mayer, Reginald Pole: Prince and Prophet. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Also:

47. ME Aston, 'Lollardy and the Reformation: survival or revival?', History 49 (1964)
48. JAF Thomson, The later Lollards 1414-1520 (revised ed.)
49. DM Loades, Revolution in religion: the English Reformation 1530-70
50. C Haigh, The English Reformations
51. R Warnicke, Anne Boleyn (see also Ives' review, in Historical Journal)
52. P Gwyn, The king's cardinal: the rise and fall of Thomas Wolsey
53.  SJ Gunn and PG Lindley, Cardinal Wolsey (essays)
54. D MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer (massive biography)
55. Kenneth Carleton. Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559. Studies in Modern British Religious History,  2001
56. Gerald Bray. Tudor Church Reform: The Henrician Canons of 1535 and the "Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum". Church of England Record Society, 2000
57. Thomas Betteridge. Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-83. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, 1999
58.  Christopher Haigh, 'Success and Failure in the English Reformation' Past and Present 2001 173
59. Alec Ryrie, 'The Strange death of Lutheran England' Journal of Ecclesiastical History 2002 (53)
60. Wright, J. (1999). ‘Surviving the English Reformation: Commonsense, conscience, and circumstance’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29