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The Education of a Christian Society Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined. At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestantism during the... Read more
Contents: List of figures and maps; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations; Humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands, Andrew Pettegree; The role of English humanists in the Reformation up to 1559, Richard Rex; From institutio to educatio: the origin of political education in Habsburg, The Netherlands, Karin Tilmans; The piety of Henry VIII, George Bernard; Dialogue, resistance and accommodation: conservative literary responses to the Henrician Reformation, Greg Walker; The exile literature of the early Reformation: 'Obedience to God and the King', Christopher J. Bradshaw; Religious propaganda in sixteenth-century Netherlandish prints and drawings, Ilja M. Veldman; Reformation, Counter-Reformation and literary propaganda in the Low Countries in the sixteenth century: the case of Brother Cornelis, Karel Bostoen; The dynamics of Reformed militancy in the Low Countries: the Wonderyear, Guido Marnef; Clan, kin and Kirk: the Campbells and the Scottish Reformation, Jane Dawson; The intellectual and cultural context of the Reformation in the Northern Netherlands, Wiebe Bergsma; Index.
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N. Scott Amos, Andrew Pettegree
'The ten studies collected together in this book are all of excellent quality'. Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 'wide-ranging in scope and documentation, and methodologically careful and provocative, these essays should become required reading for cultural historians of Britain and the continent alike.' Sixteenth Century Journal
