English reformations
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This special issue is devoted to the English Reformations and current historiography.
The title intentionally pluralizes the traditionally singular noun Reformation to
signify a scope that includes both the early Reformation (through to 1547) and continuing
senses of reformation through to the later seventeenth century. But the plural also
encourages investigation of what has seemed a mistaken homogenization of the religious
and political processes involved at all stages of "the Reformation." The articles
in this issue look at the grand narratives into which the minute particulars of historical
processes are perceived, interpreted, and occluded. They also carefully attend to
the place of theology and its diverse traditions in these processes together with
its relations to the political imaginary and practices driving what Eamon Duffy memorably
calls "the stripping of the altars." © 2010 by Duke University Press.
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10.1215/10829636-2010-001Publication Info
Aers, D; & Smith, N (2010). English reformations. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 40(3). pp. 425-438. 10.1215/10829636-2010-001. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4416.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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David Aers
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of English
David Aers works especially on medieval and early modern literature, theology, ecclesiology
and politics in England. His publications range from studies of Augustine to studies of
early 19th century writing and culture. Publications include: Piers Plowman and Christian
Allegory (Arnold 1975); Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination (Routledge,
1980); Literature, Language and Society in England, 1580-1680, written with Bob Hodge
and Gunther Kress (Barnes and Noble, 1980); Chaucer (

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