Christopher Haigh 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
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.[1] Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530.[2][3] His revisionism formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as
Eamon Duffy.
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