Researching the English Reformation

Essays in Honour of W.B. Patterson
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-67783-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History

Researching the Reformation studies the history and historiography of early Anglicanism in order to pay tribute to the scholarship of W. Brown Patterson.

Three of the volume’s sections are inspired by Patterson’s research monographs. The first taking its cue from Patterson’s study of Thomas Fuller, analyses the intersection of mythology and historiography surrounding the English Reformation. The second, following Patterson’s study of William Perkins, turns to the general theological and political contours of early modern England. The third pans out in both geography and chronology, thus emulating Patterson’s award-winning study of King James VI and I. The fourth and final section analyses how, in the nineteenth century, the early modern period was reinvented by the Parker Society and the Oxford Movement.

Contributors are: Benjamin M. Guyer, William E. Engel, George Core, George Poe, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Anthony Milton, James Ross MacDonald, Scott Kindred-Barnes, Paul Dominiak, David Neelands, John N. Wall, Torrance Kirby, Margo Todd, Nicholas Tyacke, Lori Anne Ferrell, and Peter Nockles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Guyer, Benjamin M.

Engel, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 Introduction Benjamin M. Guyer and William E. Engel

2 William Brown Patterson: Life and Career George Core and George Poe

Part 1 Historiography, I: Reformation England

3 Matters Overlooked: Straightening Out the Story of the Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch

4 A Fatal Conceit? Early Stuart Projects for the Ecclesiastical History of England Anthony Milton

5 Doubt and Commitment in Thomas Fuller’s Church-History of Britain James Ross Macdonald

Part 2 Within and beyond Early Modern England

6 Remembering the King: Roger Williams and Anne Sadlier Debate the King’s Book and Ecclesiastical Authority Scott N. Kindred-Barnes

7 The Natural Desire to See God: Early Modern Catholic and Reformed Interpretations of Aquinas Paul Dominiak

8 Richard Hooker and Multiple Platonisms David Neelands

9 ‘The Whole Congregation at One Instant Pour Out Their Petitions’: Addressing the Challenges of Implementation in the Use of the Book of Common Prayer John N. Wall

Part 3 Negotiating Monarchy

10 Supreme Governess: the Intersection of Theology and Politics in Richard Hooker’s Apologetics Torrance Kirby

11 Investing in Good Will: James VI, Religious Innovation, and the Royal Burgh of Perth Margo Todd

12 The Sacred and the Secular, as Evinced by English Printed Responses to the Death of William III in 1702 Nicholas Tyacke

Part 4 Historiography, II: Victorian Reformation

13 The Victorians, William Perkins, and W.B. Patterson Lori Anne Ferrell

14 ‘Handing Down the Principles of Laud’: History and Propaganda in John Henry Newman’s Tractarian Battle for the Church of England Peter B. Nockles

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin M. Guyer is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He is author of How the English Reformation was Named: The Politics of History, c. 1400-1700 (2022), as well as various journal articles and book chapters. A member of the editorial board of Anglican & Episcopal History, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

William E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at the University of the South, Sewanee. He has published ten books including, most recently, The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History: John Day and the Fabrication of a Protestant Memory Art (2022).