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Marshall, Peter and Morgan, John E. (2016) Clerical conformity and the Elizabethan settlement revisited. The Historical Journal, 59 (1). pp. 1-22. doi:10.1017/S0018246X15000199 ISSN 0018-246X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X15000199
Abstract
This article re-examines the nature and extent of conformity to the Religious Settlement amongst the parish clergy in the first decades of Elizabeth I’s reign. The estimate of Henry Gee, made over a century ago, that only around 300 clergymen were deprived for non-conformity to the Settlement has been remarkably influential and durable, and it continues to shape broader assessments of the ways in which religio-political change was implemented and received in this period. Using digital resources such as the Clergy of the Church of England Database, in conjunction with hitherto neglected biographical compilations, the article argues for a significant revision of Gee’s figures. More broadly, it reflects on the complex meanings of ‘conformity’ in a period of perplexing change and dramatic institutional disruption, disputing any suggestion that apparent acquiescence signalled pervasive ‘acceptance’ of the alteration in religion among the clergy. In the process, it draws attention to the pitfalls of uncritical deployment of numbers and statistics, and of using them as explanatory short-cuts in understanding the dynamics of Reformation change.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BX Christian Denominations | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Gee, Henry, 1858-1938 -- Influence, Church and state -- England -- 16th century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Historical Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0018-246X | ||||||||
Official Date: | March 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 59 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-22 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0018246X15000199 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 July 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 July 2017 |
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