Synopses & Reviews
This is an important new analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation on English towns. It shows how the transfer of property, coupled with new statutory responsibilities and the destruction of a doctrine-based political culture, enabled many towns to extend their holdings and increase their institutional authority.
Review
"In this lucid and penetrating study on the emergence of urban society in England, Tittler presents a seminal and meaningful interpretation of the relationship between the English Reformation and the development of modern English urban life....Highly recommended."--Choice
"This book has...virtues (which are great)...this book does provide the only up-to-date statement of urban politics and government in the early modern period. It is carefully....written and argued with a clarity that makes it suitable to students as well as researchers, as does its admirable fairness to all, a quality not always associated with either of the fields, , Reformation and urban historiography, to which it so notably contributes."--Albion