Being Protestant in Reformation Britain

by Alec Ryrie

Book Overview

The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between 1530 and 1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism.

Beginning from the surprisingly urgent,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199565724
• ISBN13: 9780199565726
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.2"