The Secularization of Early Modern England: From Religious Culture to Religious Faith - Couverture rigide

Sommerville, C. John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195074270 ISBN 13 : 9780195074277

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this provocative work, Sommerville examines the onset of secularization in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, exploring how and why various aspects of life - art, language, work, play, technology, and power - became divorced from religious values.

The work helps modern readers understand what life was like in an age in which religion suffused society and was as basic to thought as the structure of language. Sommerville argues that secularization began earlier in England than many historians believe - even before Henry VIII's seizure of power over the church in the 1530s - and that it advanced in concert with the Protestant Reformation. As more aspects of daily life were divorced from religious values and controls, religious culture was supplanted by religious faith, a reasoned (rather than an unquestioned) belief in the supernatural.

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Author of The Rise and Fall of Childhood (1982)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195074270
• ISBN 13: 9780195074277
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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