The formation of the nation. The religious and political history of England XVI - the first half of the XVII century. In modern British

The monograph presents a modern understanding of the history of reformation and the religious and political struggle in England of the XVI-the first decades of the XVII century. This period in British history was a time of gap of church-administrative relations with the Roman Catholic Church, the beginning of the formation of the National Church and Puritanism, the complex of these factors had a great influence on the development of spiritual culture in the entire English-language world. Under the direct impact of the Reformation, the British political system, headed by the monarch, concentrated secular and church power functions, and also intensified parliament as a legislative institution. In England, a Catholic community has been preserved, limited in rights, but not lost its religious identity, which has become one of the foundations of tolerance and cultural diversity. Period XVI - the first half of the XVII century. In many ways, he marked the beginning of the formation of the political system and the formation of the socio-cultural identity of modern Great Britain.
The book will be interesting to all those who are occupied by issues of the religious and political history of England of the XVI-the first half of the XVII century, as well as the formation of British confessional and cultural identity in general