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The English Soul

by Peter Ackroyd

First published 2024

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The English Soul surveys the development of Christianity in England across roughly fourteen centuries. Beginning with the Anglo-Saxon church, it moves through medieval monastic and mystical traditions, the Reformation and the English Bible, Puritanism and dissent, evangelical revival, Victorian faith and doubt, and the pressures of secularisation in the modern age.

Ackroyd organises the history around theologians, rulers, mystics, poets and preachers whose beliefs changed English religious life. The book examines the church’s relationship with the state and national identity while also acknowledging internal conflict, nonconformity, atheism and the influence of other faiths on contemporary England.

Historical Periods

Anglo-Saxon Englandc. 476–1066 CE Henrician Reformation1530–1547 CE Mary I and the Counter-Reformation1553–1558 CE Elizabethan Age1558–1603 CE Commonwealth and Protectorate1649–1660 CE Victorian Era1837–1901 CE Cold War and Post-war Era1945–present

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Henry VIII1491–1547 Mary I1516–1558 Elizabeth I1533–1603 Thomas Cranmer1489–1556 Thomas More1478–1535 William Blake1757–1827

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