Christopher Haigh

Christopher Haigh
FRHistS
Christopher Haigh FRHistS
Born	28 August 1944 (age 81); Birkenhead, Merseyside, England
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Spouse	Alison Wall
Children	2
Academic background
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge; Victoria University of Manchester
Influences	Geoffrey Elton
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Early modern Britain; English Reformation; Political history; Elizabethan era;
Institutions	University of Manchester; Christ Church, Oxford
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Christopher A. Haigh FRHistS^[2] (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 Christ Church, Oxford and University Lecturer at Oxford University. He was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge and the Victoria University of Manchester. Haigh was a very influential revisionist in Tudor historiography and on the English Reformation. 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.^[3] Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530.^[4]^[5] 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.^[6]

Works

Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire, Cambridge University Press, 1975
The English Reformation Revised, Cambridge University Press, 1987
English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors, Oxford University Press, 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, Journal of British Studies. 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, The Historical Journal, vol 47, 2004, pp. 233–259
The Character of an Antipuritan, Sixteenth Century Journal, vol XXXV, 2004, pp. 671–88
A G Dickens and the English Reformation, Historical Research, vol 77, 2004, pp. 24–38
The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640, Oxford University Press, 2007

References

^ Christopher Haigh (2007). The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199216505. p. v: I didn't see myself as another Geoffrey Elton, but as I had been taught and much inﬂuenced by him it seemed obvious to tackle the job of writing as he did.
^ "List of Fellows (February 2024)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
^ Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 199.
^ Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 200
^ HAIGH, CHRISTOPHER. "ANTICLERICALISM AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION." History 68, no. 224 (1983): 391-407. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597.
^ Christopher Haigh (2007). The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. vii. ISBN 9780199216505.

External links

[1] Archived 29 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Christopher Haigh's website
[2] article by Haigh on Roderigo Lopez

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[1] Christopher Haigh (2007). The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199216505. p. v: I didn't see myself as another Geoffrey Elton, but as I had been taught and much inﬂuenced by him it seemed obvious to tackle the job of writing as he did.

[2] "List of Fellows (February 2024)" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 23 April 2025.

[3] Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 199.

[4] Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 200

[5] HAIGH, CHRISTOPHER. "ANTICLERICALISM AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION." History 68, no. 224 (1983): 391-407. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597.

[6] Christopher Haigh (2007). The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. vii. ISBN 9780199216505.

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Christopher Haigh FRHistS
Born	(1944-08-28) 28 August 1944 (age 81) Birkenhead, Merseyside, England
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Spouse	Alison Wall
Children	2

Academic background
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge Victoria University of Manchester
Influences	Geoffrey Elton^[1]
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Early modern Britain English Reformation Political history Elizabethan era
Institutions	University of Manchester Christ Church, Oxford