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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together reformation and reception studies by exploring the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in Britain. The 11 papers shed new light on familiar associations, draw attention to under-explored relationships, and identify how British reception in turn contributed to continued reform on the continent. Different aspects of reception from biblical translation and book history to popular politics and theological polemic are addressed. The volume also prompts further questions regarding British integration and the perception (and invention) of England''s ''exceptional'' status.
Trade ReviewThere are no weak essays here: all deserve their place. * Glen Bowman, Church History *
This volume contributes to that scholrarly movement of thought by rediscovering the Continental dimentions of the Reformations in Britain ... All most enlightening, reminding us of the 'strange death of Lutheran England' and the clear shift after Edward VI to a more Reformed version of Protestantism that characterised the settled state of the Church here in this formative period. * Dr Lee Gatiss, Churchman *
Table of ContentsReformation and the Uses of Reception ; The Fog in the Channel Clears: The Rediscovery of the Continental Dimension to the British Reformation ; The Authority of Antiquity: England and the Protestant Latin Bible ; Unreliable Witnesses ; Erasmus or Calvin? The politics of book purchase in the early modern English parish ; The Reception of Martin Luther in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England ; Peter Martyr Vermigli's political theology and the Elizabethan Church ; John Knox, Christopher Goodman and the 'Example of Geneva' ; The Church of England and the Palatinate, 1566-1642 ; Martin Bucer and Early Seventeenth-Century Scottish Irenicism ; 'A Reformation of Common Learning': Educational reform in Reformed central Europe and its reception in the English-speaking world, c. 1642 ; Afterword
