Religious disorder in the archives: the historiography of religious authority in seventeenth-century England
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Paper/Presentation Title | Religious disorder in the archives: the historiography of religious authority in seventeenth-century England |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
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Author | Harmes, Marcus |
Journal or Proceedings Title | 2009 Australian Historical Association Conference: Abstracts |
Year | 2009 |
Place of Publication | Melbourne, Australia |
Conference/Event | 2009 Australian Historical Association Conference: Constructing the Past (AHA 2009) |
Event Details | 2009 Australian Historical Association Conference: Constructing the Past (AHA 2009) Event Date 30 Jun 2009 to end of 03 Jul 2009 Event Location Sunshine Coast, Australia |
Abstract | This paper uses theoretical insights from Pierre Nora and Peter Burke to examine the construction of an historical vision of the Reformation. It argues that the hitherto under-explored historical literature of the seventeenth century, which stressed the order and completion of reform, throws into relief the disorderly afterlife of the sources for English Reformation history. The clergy of the Church of England worked assiduously to preserve the historically tangible records of their Church, yet also struggled to contain to body of knowledge which in the seventeenth century could be used to subvert that institution. The Reformation remained a subject for active investigation during the seventeenth century. Historians attempted to outdo each other in discoveries of rare documents, a competition especially entered into by Gilbert Burnet, Thomas Tenison and Anthony Harmer. Yet while the archives were plundered for new discoveries, it is striking that the historical texts which embodied the results of this research became increasingly uniform in their import and emphasis, so much so that by the end of the seventeenth century historians and editors were assembling seamless narratives of reform from different historians. This paper makes sense of how the uniformity and order found in seventeenth-century historical literature contrasts with ecclesiastical controversies surrounding the acquisition and editing of historical sources. |
Keywords | English reformation; historiography; episcopacy, english; |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500316. Philosophy of religion |
500405. Religion, society and culture | |
430304. British history | |
Byline Affiliations | University of Queensland |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0z5w/religious-disorder-in-the-archives-the-historiography-of-religious-authority-in-seventeenth-century-england
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