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Religious Exiles and the Tudor State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall*
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University of Warwick
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Much of the best recent scholarship on the implementation of the Tudor Reformations has chosen as its leitmotif the themes of obedience, conformity and acquiescence, collaboration even. The revisionism of the 1980s and 1990s overthrew convincingly the notion of widespread popular enthusiasm for religious change. But given that change was successfully imposed, part of revisionism’s legacy has been a somewhat optimistic assessment of the capabilities of the Tudor state. Whether allied to the cause of religious reform, or that of religious reaction, Tudor governments were apparently remarkably effective at enforcing their will, largely because of their ability to co-opt the energies and loyalties of locally-based elites and sub-elites. In terms of this volume’s twin themes, it appears to be a case of discipline successfully exerted; diversity effectively curtailed.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 43: Discipline and Diversity , 2007 , pp. 263 - 284
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 2007

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