Study Overview

This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during the Enlightenment; instead, they saw themselves as facing the religious, intellectual and political problems unleashed by the Reformation, which began in the sixteenth century.

Context and Historical Background

Moreover, they faced those problems in the aftermath of two bloody seventeenth-century political and religious revolutions. This book examines how the eighteenth-century English debated the causes and consequences of those revolutions and the thing they thought had caused them, the Reformation.

Methodology

It draws on a wide array of manuscript sources to show how authors crafted and pitched their works.