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Nature, Music and the Reformation in England*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
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The story of music in the Elizabethan Church is, in many ways, an embodiment of the relationship between two larger, competing and often contradictory discourses: those of Renaissance and Reformation. As Alexandra Walsham noted in the introduction to Providence in Early Modern England, published in 1999,
there is a growing conviction that too much ink has been spilt arguing about the pace, geography and social distribution of conversion and change and too little charting the ways in which the populace adjusted to the doctrinal and ecclesiastical revolution as a permanent fact.’
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- Studies in Church History , Volume 46: God’s Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World , 2010 , pp. 184 - 193
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- Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 2010
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My thanks go to those who commented on earlier versions of this paper. It draws upon themes which are discussed in greater detail in my Ph.D. thesis,’Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities’ (University of Warwick, 2009).
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