Reformation and Society in GuernseyThe Channel Islands, situated between France and England, have always been exposed to the influences of both countries, and have resolved these potentially conflicting pressures in unique and interesting ways. Dr Ogier's study of events in Guernsey between 1540 and 1640 explores changes which took place on the island as Catholicism was replaced by Calvinism, imposed by a series of commissions appointed by the English government during the reign of Elizabeth. The changes in society which resulted are carefully charted, showing how, as the old Catholic forms of social organisation were replaced by the disciplinarian approach of the Calivinist regime Protestant pastoral care replacing the former Catholic fraternities the island's old elite contrived to retain control, to their own financial advantage but at the cost of the loss of the Calvinist dream and the development of an increasingly divided island society. Dr D.M. OGIERgained his Ph.D. at the University of Warwick. |
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