Christopher A. Haigh (born 28 August 1944) is a British historian specialising in religion and politics around the English Reformation. Until his retirement in 2009, he was Student and Tutor in Modern History at

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and University Lecturer at

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. He was educated at

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and the

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. Haigh was a very influential revisionist in Tudor

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and on the

English Reformation The English Reformation began in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the pope and bishops Oath_of_Supremacy, over the King and then from some doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church ...

. Haigh's writings mostly demonstrated that, contrary to orthodox understandings of the English Reformation, religious reform was extremely complex and varied considerably at a parish level. Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530. His revisionism formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as Eamon Duffy.

Personal life

Haigh is married to fellow historian Alison Wall.

Works

*''Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire'',

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, 1975 *''The English Reformation Revised'',

, 1987 *''English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors'',

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, 1993 *''Politics in an Age of Peace and War, 1570-1630'' in ''The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain'', Oxford, 1996, pp. 330–360 *''Elizabeth I'', London, 1988 *''Success and Failure in the English Reformation'', Past & Present. Vol 173 (1) (2001) pp. 28–49 *''The Troubles of Thomas Pestell: Parish Squabbles and Ecclesiastical Politics in Caroline England'',

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. Vol 41 (2002) pp. 403–428 *''The Reformation in England to 1603'' in ''The Blackwell Companion to the Reformation'', Oxford, 2003 *''Clergy JPs in England and Wales, 1590-1640'',

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, vol 47, 2004, pp. 233–259 *''The Character of an Antipuritan'',

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, vol XXXV, 2004, pp. 671–88 *''A G Dickens and the English Reformation'',

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, vol 77, 2004, pp. 24–38 *''The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640'',

, 2007

References

External links

Christopher Haigh's website

article by Haigh on Rodrigo López (physician), Roderigo Lopez Living people 1944 births Writers from Birkenhead 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians 20th-century English male writers 21st-century English male writers Alumni of Churchill College, Cambridge Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester Academics of the University of Manchester Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford Historians of the University of Oxford Reformation historians Tudor historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society {{England-historian-stub