Week 6: The English Reformation

Europe’s Reformation

Monday

Lecture on the English Reformations

Presentation

Wednesday

Secondary Source Discussion: The English Reformation

  • Ethan Shagan, “The English People and the Edwardian Reformation,” in Popular Politics and the English Reformation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 270-304. (on zotero).

Friday

Primary Source Discussion: The English Reformation

  • Archbishop Thomas Cramner: Letter on Henry VIII’s Divorce, 1533. Online here.
  • Henry VIII (r.1509-1547): The Act of Supremacy 1534 online here.
  • The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey, 1539. Online here.
  • Elizabeth’s Act of Uniformity, 1559. Online here.
  • The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England (1662) (excerpts),
  • Presentation by Abbe Wagster and Dominic Cahill.