Baylor University Press Religion in Tudor England: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Documents of Anglophone Christianity)

Review In its complexity, Religion in Tudor England presents an indispensable and innovative tool for the rediscovery of otherwise inaccessible selections, texts, and pamphlets for the academic community. The volume, in addition to bringing to light these writings of decisive importance, constitutes a valuable opportunity for deepening and stimulating new research on the religious climate, factions, and tensions that pervaded the British Isles during the troubled hundred years following the succession of the Tudors to the English throne.--Stefano Colavecchia "Sixteenth Century Journal" Product Description Religion in Tudor England offers readers the prose and the poetry, the theology and the spirituality, the prayers and the polemics, of one of the most important epochs in the making of modern Christianity. Beginning with King Henry VII, the Tudors' reign included the break with Rome and the rise of English Protestantism, a series of religiously inspired revolts, the burnings of nearly three hundred Protestants for heresy under Queen Mary, the executions of scores of Catholics for treason under Queen Elizabeth, and the emergence of the Puritan challenge to the Church of England. Moreover, the English Reformation coincided with the English Renaissance, and the foremost religious thinkers of the age, Catholic as well as Protestant, are also among the greatest of English prose stylists. The sources in this unique anthology, modernized and accompanied by careful notes and detailed historical, literary, and theological introductions, immerse readers in this world and allow them to explore comprehensively--for the first time--what was lost, what was transformed, and what was preserved in the English Reformation. About the Author Debora Shuger is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA, where she specializes in Tudor-Stuart literature, and the author of The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity . She lives in Culver City, CA.