3rd Edition

The Age of Reformation The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485–1603

By Alec Ryrie Copyright 2024
350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Now in its third edition, The Age of Reformation has been fully updated and extended, offering a comprehensive study of the relationships between religion, politics, and social change in the sixteenth century. The book charts the new challenges and crises facing the English, Scottish, and Irish states in the early modern age as they contended with the spread of Protestantism and a powerful... Read more

1. The World of the Parish  2. Politics and Religion in Two Kingdoms, 1485–1513  3. The Renaissance  4. Renaissance to Reformation  5. Supreme Head: Henry VIII's Reformation, 1527–47  6. The English Revolution: Edward VI, 1547–53  7. Two Restorations: Mary and Elizabeth, 1553–60  8. Reformation on the Battlefield: Scotland, 1542–73  9. Gaping Gulfs: Elizabethan England and the Politics of Fear  10. Reforming the World of the Parish  11. Reformation and Empire  Epilogue: Electing a Monarch, 1603

Biography

Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, emeritus Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications on the history of the Reformation and of Protestantism include Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013), Protestants (2017), Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019), and The World’s Reformation (2025).