The age of reformation : the Tudor and Stewart realms, 1485-1603 / Alec Ryrie.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. The world of the parish -- Living in early modern Britain -- A Lost World -- Plague and its aftermath -- Diversions and hopes -- The Church as an institution -- The structure -- The clergy -- Beyond the parish -- Parish Christianity -- Inside the parish Church -- The Mass and its meaning -- The living and the dead -- Satisfaction and dissent -- Heresy -- Ànticlericalism' -- 2. Politics and religion in two kingdoms, 1485 -- 1513 -- Governing Britain -- Kingship, lordship and elective monarchy -- Structures of government -- Church and state -- The usurper's tale: Henry VII and the restoration of stability -- Challenge and survival: The pretenders -- Money and control -- Kingship, popularity and legitimacy -- T̀he lord of the world': James IV's Scotland and the theatre of kingship -- 3. The Renaissance -- Out of Italy -- The weight of history in the Middle Ages -- The Italian Renaissance and what came of it -- The Renaissance in Britain -- Scotland -- England -- Renaissance and Reformation -- Books and printing -- 4. Renaissance to Reformation -- Henry VIII and the glamour of kingship, 1509 -- 27 -- The performer king -- The cardinal's king -- The Lutheran heresy -- A Problem of Theology -- The arrival of heresy in England -- Scotland: Religion and politics under James V, 1513 -- 42 -- 5. Supreme Head: Henry VIII's Reformation, 1527 -- 47 -- The break with Rome -- Conscience and dispensation: Two trials, 1527 -- 29 -- A New Approach: 1529 -- 32 -- From divorce to Reformation -- The Henrician Reformation -- Books and articles: The doctrinal Reformation -- King Hezekiah: The Henrician Reformation in practice -- Reactions and responses -- Religious conservatives: Active resistance, passive resistance -- Evangelicals: From loyalty to frustration -- The wider population: Confusion and conformity -- 6. The English Revolution: Edward VI, 1547 -- 53 -- Carnival: Protector Somerset's Reformation -- From Henry VIII to Protector Somerset -- The gospellers unleashed, 1547 -- 49 -- Official Reformation: The first phase -- 1549 -- 50: The hinge of the Edwardian regime -- The crises of 1549 -- Religious opposition and its failure -- Lent: The duke of Northumberland's Reformation -- Consolidation and division: The official Reformation -- The future of the Edwardian Reformation -- Elective monarchy revisited: The Jane Grey debacle -- 7. Two restorations: Mary and Elizabeth, 1553 -- 60 -- Mary -- Religion, marriage and their consequences -- Rebuilding the Church -- The Protestant problem -- The end of the regime and the transfer of power -- Elizabeth -- The path to the sèttlement' -- Implementing the Reformation -- 8. Reformation on the battlefield: Scotland, 1542 -- 73 -- Regency, 1542 -- 58 -- The crisis of 1543 -- The r̀ough wooing' -- French Scotland, 1550 -- 59 -- The Scottish Revolution, 1558 -- 61 -- An unexpected war -- An unexpected peace -- A Tragedy of Errors: Mary and the Scots, 1561 -- 73 -- Playing the queen, 1561 -- 67 -- King's men and queen's men, 1567 -- 73 -- 9. Gaping Gulfs: Elizabethan England and the politics of fear -- Marriage and the succession: The long crisis -- From elective monarchy to monarchical republic -- The marriage problem -- B̀y halves and by petty invasions': War and rumours of war -- Catholicism, p̀opery' and the enemy within -- 10. Reforming the world of the parish -- Protestant Scotland: From kirk session to presbytery -- A Disciplined Church -- Bishops and presbyteries -- Puritans and conformists in England -- The long struggle against the Settlement -- The resurgence of conformity -- Building Puritanism in the parishes -- Popular religion in Elizabethan England: A group portrait -- 11. Reformation and empire -- Securing peripheries, 1485 -- 1560 -- The end of independent lordships: Ireland and Wales, 1485 -- 1534 -- The Henrician settlements -- Reformation in the uplands -- The Celtic Reformations 1560 -- 1603: Success and failure -- Wales and the Scottish Highlands: The path to Protestantism -- Ireland in the balance -- Ireland, England and Essex: The crisis of the 1590s.