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Anticlericalism and the English Reformation
History, 1983Thinking is a difficult business, and most of us prefer to do as little of it as possible. To avoid the anguish and responsibility of independent thought, we explain the past with historical cliches, we play with labels rather than grapple with the complexities of detail. We rely upon ‘the decay of medieval religion’, ‘the growth of an articulate laity’
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The English and Swedish Health Care Reforms
International Journal of Health Services, 1994England and Sweden have two of the most advanced systems of universal access to health care in the world. Both have begun major reforms based on similar principles. Universal access and finance from taxation are retained, but a measure of competition between providers of health care is introduced.
Glennerster H., Matsaganis E.
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Reform Strategies For The English NHS
Health Affairs, 2004With large funding increases planned for the next five years, England's National Health Service (NHS) has embarked on an ambitious program of system reform. This paper considers the main reform strategies now being deployed and assesses three potentially competing assumptions underpinning them.
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The recent historiography of the English Reformation
The Historical Journal, 1982The English Reformation was not a specific event which may be given a precise date; it was a long and complex process. ‘The Reformation’ is a colligatory concept, a historians’ label which relates several lesser changes into an overall movement: it embraces a break from the Roman obedience; an assertion of secular control over the Church; a suppression
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1968
One consequence of the Protestant Reformation was that the Scriptures were made available in the vernacular. In England the publication and use of the English Bible was encouraged by Henry VIII despite his own conservative views in theology. William Tyndale ranks first among the names to be mentioned in connection with the English Bible.
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One consequence of the Protestant Reformation was that the Scriptures were made available in the vernacular. In England the publication and use of the English Bible was encouraged by Henry VIII despite his own conservative views in theology. William Tyndale ranks first among the names to be mentioned in connection with the English Bible.
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On the History of English Spelling Reform
Textus, 1997special issue: Linguistic change in English: A socio-cultural ...
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2010
Fifteenth-century England was solidly Catholic, 17th-century England predominantly Protestant: the difference between them constituted the English Reformation. Scholarly opinion is divided about the nature of the changes that happened in the 16th century, the rate at which they occurred in town and country and from region to region, and whether they ...
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Fifteenth-century England was solidly Catholic, 17th-century England predominantly Protestant: the difference between them constituted the English Reformation. Scholarly opinion is divided about the nature of the changes that happened in the 16th century, the rate at which they occurred in town and country and from region to region, and whether they ...
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1993
Abstract English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ...
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Abstract English Reformations takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ...
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English Reformation Literature
2022The English Reformation produced a vibrant literature, which entertained and consoled readers and audiences, and attempted to influence the direction of religious change. Scholars long overlooked this literature because they clung to assumptions of canon-formation by which the medieval poet Chaucer and his imitators were thought to lead seamlessly to ...
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The Imaginators of English University Reform
2016This chapter traces changes to English universities as a result of changing political economic conditions in the United Kingdom. These conditions shifted funding and governance mechanisms in unprecedented ways, and so entailed dramatic transformations for English universities.
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