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The English Reformation: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories) by Alec Ryrie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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**'Masterly' - Eric Metaxas** **'Mould-breaking' - John Guy** **'A little gem of a book' - Suzannah Lipscomb** __From the Introduction:__ 'There is no such thing as "the English Reformation". A "Reformation" is a composite event which is only made visible by being framed the right way. It is like a "war": a label we put onto a particular set of events, while we decide that other – equally violent – acts are not part of that or of any "war". Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English people knew that they were living through an age of religious upheaval, but they did not know that it was "the English Reformation", any more than the soldiers at the battle of Agincourt knew that they were fighting in "the Hundred Years' War". . . . 'Plainly these religious upheavals permanently changed England and, by extension, the many other countries on which English culture has made its mark. There is not, however, a single master narrative of all this turmoil. How could there be? . . . The way you choose to tell the story is governed by what you think is important and what is trivial, by whether there are heroes or villains you want to celebrate or condemn, and by the legacies and lessons which y
Who reads The English Reformation: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alec Ryrie
- Publisher
- SPCK Publishing
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780281082407
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Christian