Christopher Haigh is a British historian specialising in religion and politics around the English Reformation. Until his retirement in 2009, he was Student and Tutor in Modern History at

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and University Lecturer at

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. He was educated at

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and the

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. Haigh was a very influential revisionist in Tudor

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and on the

English Reformation The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Protestant Reformation, a religious and poli ...

. Haigh's writings mostly demonstrated that, contrary to orthodox understandings of the English Reformation, religious reform was extremely complex and varied considerably at a parish level. Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530.HAIGH, CHRISTOPHER. "ANTICLERICALISM AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION." History 68, no. 224 (1983): 391-407. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597. His revisionism formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as

Eamon Duffy Eamon Duffy (born 1947) is an Irish historian. He is a professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow and former president of Magdalene College. Early life Duffy was born on 9 February 1947, in Dundalk, I ...

Works

*''Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire'',

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, 1975 *''The English Reformation Revised'',

, 1987 *''English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors'',

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, 1993 *''Politics in an Age of Peace and War, 1570-1630'' in ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain'', Oxford, 1996, pp. 330–360 *''Elizabeth I'', London, 1988 *''Success and Failure in the English Reformation'', Past & Present. Vol 173 (1) (2001) pp. 28–49 *''The Troubles of Thomas Pestell: Parish Squabbles and Ecclesiastical Politics in Caroline England'',

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. Vol 41 (2002) pp. 403–428 *''The Reformation in England to 1603'' in ''The Blackwell Companion to the Reformation'', Oxford, 2003 *''Clergy JPs in England and Wales, 1590-1640'',

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, vol 47, 2004, pp. 233–259 *''The Character of an Antipuritan'',

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, vol XXXV, 2004, pp. 671–88 *''A G Dickens and the English Reformation'',

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, vol 77, 2004, pp. 24–38 *''The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640'',

, 2007

References

External links

Christopher Haigh's website

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