Not Angles but Anglicans? Reformation and Post-Reformation Perspectives on the Anglo-Saxon Church, Part II: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Hugh Magennis
Building on the examination of Tudor writers in Part I this article (English Studies Vol. 96, issue 3, pp. 243–263), present discussion traces religious appropriation Anglo-Saxon church through following two centuries, focusing writings James Ussher, Elizabeth Elstob, Sharon Turner, John Lingard and others process. The assiduous scholarly identification early English with Protestantism, (contra) Catholicism, is shown to be reflected across later period down nineteenth century.
English Studies