England's Second Reformation

Anthony Milton is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of books including Catholic and Reformed (1995) and Laudian and Royalist Polemic in Seventeenth-century England (2007), and he edited volume 1 of The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume 1 (2017). He has held a major research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and a visiting fellowship at All Souls College and has given invited papers at numerous international venues. He has also served as president of the Society for Reformation Studies (2015–19).

• Introduction; 1. An Unresolved Reformation; 2. Situating the Laudian Reformation; 3. Responses to the Laudian Reformation; 4. The Abortive Reformation 1640–42; 5. The End of Episcopalian Reformation; 6. Reformation by Negotiation; 7. The Westminster Reformation and the Parliamentarian Church of England 1642–49; 8. The Royalist Church of England 1642–49; 9. Alternative Reformations 1649–53; 10. The Cromwellian Church; 11. Episcopalian Royalism in the 1650s; 12. Failed Reformations 1659–61; 13. The End of Comprehensive Reformation and the Caroline Settlement.

'Anthony Milton's magnum opus sets out a powerful reinterpretation of the politics of religion in seventeenth-century England. Instead of seeing Anglican conservatives pitted against Puritan revolutionaries, Milton depicts an era of Second Reformation, a contest between rival Reformers of the Church of England. A magisterial book.' John Coffey, University of Leicester