This text draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four countries/three kingdoms.

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland was authored by William Cobbett. Cobbett was the son of a farmer, a champion of rural English life, and one of the most influential journalists of the day. This work sees Cobbett explore the reformation and its outcomes in great detail, and with a personal investment rarely found in history texts. Although a Protestant himself, Cobbett's central thesis in A History of Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland is that the changes brought upon by the Protestant Reformation had a negative impact on daily life in England and Ireland. This is an account of Henry VIII's rule, the wastefulness of his government, the greed of his political allies, and the terrible deeds done to the common citizen as a direct result of the Reformation. Corbett also builds a connection between the Protestant Reformation and the American Revolution, arguing that the Lords who came to power during this period of great change were the same Lords that revolutionaries sought to separate from. The author's evidence is convincing and personal throughout. The book is written in a casual style, structured as a series of letters to the reader. While Cobbett writes in a persuasive tone, he does give equal credence to the flip side of his argument, and examines the Catholic revolts against the Protestants in great detail. A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland is an important text on the history of the Protestant Reformation, and one that is essential reading for any student or scholar of this significant event. Detailed, persuasive, and well-crafted, Cobbett's work here is an accomplishment, and a highly recommended book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This text examines the efforts of the Tudor regime to implement the English Reformation in Ireland during the sixteenth century.

The survival and revival of Roman Catholicism in post-Reformation Britain remains the subject of lively debate. This volume examines key aspects of the evolution and experience of the Catholic communities of these Protestant kingdoms during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Rejecting an earlier preoccupation with recusants and martyrs, it highlights the importance of those who exhibited varying degrees of conformity with the ecclesiastical establishment and explores the moral and political dilemmas that confronted the clergy and laity. It reassesses the significance of the Counter Reformation mission as an evangelical enterprise; analyses its communication strategies and its impact on popular piety; and illuminates how Catholic ritual life creatively adapted itself to a climate of repression. Reacting sharply against the insularity of many previous accounts, this book investigates developments in the British Isles in relation to wider international initiatives for the renewal of the Catholic faith in Europe and for its plantation overseas. It emphasises the reciprocal interaction between Catholicism and anti-Catholicism throughout the period and casts fresh light on the nature of interconfessional relations in a pluralistic society. It argues that persecution and suffering paradoxically both constrained and facilitated the resurgence of the Church of Rome. They presented challenges and fostered internal frictions, but they also catalysed the process of religious identity formation and imbued English, Welsh and Scottish Catholicism with peculiar dynamism. Prefaced by an extensive new historiographical overview, this collection brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham's essays written over the last fifteen years, fully revised and updated to reflect recent research in this flourishing field. Collectively these make a major contribution to our understanding of minority Catholicism and the Counter Reformation in the era after the Council of Trent.