The English Reformation Religion and Cultural Adaption [Paperback]

This history tells the story of how the English, over three generations, adapted to the religious changes forced upon them by the Reformation and, in doing so, radically reconstructed their culture.List of Illustrations.

Abbreviations.

Acknowledgements.

1. Post Reformation Culture.

2. Choosing Reformations.

3. Families and Reformations.

4. Dissolutions and Opportunities.

5. Redefining Communities.

6. Reinventing Public Virtue.

7. Learning Private Virtue.

8. The Post - Reformation World View.

Notes.

Select Bibliography.

Index.

This is an excellent book; original in conception, penetrating in analysis, broad in its range of reference, and vivid in the telling. Susan Brigden, Lincoln College, Oxford

[This book contains] a great deal to fascinated and stimulate debate. Times Literary Supplement

Jones provides the reader with portraits of the Reformation's impact on people across the social and political spectrum. This is social history at its best. It is detailed without being cluttered and engaging without being gossipy. Highly recommended for general readers, upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and faculty. D.M. Whitford, Claflin University, in Choice, Nov. 2002

Norman Jones is a formidable scholar of political history. The last chapter on private virtue stands out as a thoughtful and intricate examination of the difficulties Elizabethans experienced in appealing to conscience as the arbiter of virtue and truth while remaining loyal members of a state run church... Jones writes very well [and] the book is a reliable lÃI