{{Short description|British historian (born 1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2016}} {{infobox academic |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}} |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1944|8|28}} |birth_place = [[Birkenhead]], [[Merseyside]], [[England]] |occupation = Historian and academic |alma_mater = [[Churchill College, Cambridge]]<br>[[Victoria University of Manchester]] |workplaces = [[University of Manchester]]<br>[[Christ Church, Oxford]] |discipline = [[History]] |sub_discipline = {{hlist|[[Early modern Britain]]|[[English Reformation]]|[[Political history]]|[[Elizabethan era]]}} |influences = [[Geoffrey Elton]]<ref>{{cite book|title=The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640|author=Christopher Haigh|quote-page=v|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=2007|isbn=9780199216505|quote=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.}}</ref> |spouse = Alison Wall |children = 2 }} '''Christopher A. Haigh''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}}<ref>{{cite web |title=List of Fellows (February 2024) |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/22170322/Fellows_February-2024.xlsb.pdf |website=Royal Historical Society |access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref> (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.<ref>Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 199.</ref> Haigh has also been noted for his work in diminishing the significance attributed to anticlericalism prior to 1530.<ref>Tom Betteridge (2003) Recent English Reformation Historiography: People, Places and Processes, Reformation, 8:1, 199-211, 200</ref><ref>HAIGH, CHRISTOPHER. "ANTICLERICALISM AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION." History 68, no. 224 (1983): 391-407. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24417597.</ref> His revisionism formed part of a broader wave in Tudor historiography with other historians such as [[Eamon Duffy]] and also formed the basis for the theory of the [[long reformation]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Stephen |last=Taylor|title=The long Reformation: conceptualisation and periodisation in English religious history between the 16th and 18th centuries|journal=East Asian Journal of British History|volume=9 |year=2025|url=https://www.easbh.org/_files/ugd/2393d2_24ef9f96133949728f67fbb99081e4a1.pdf#page=105|p=102}}</ref>
==Personal life== Haigh is married to fellow historian Alison Wall.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640|author=Christopher Haigh|page=vii|location=Oxford|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=2007|isbn=9780199216505}}</ref>
==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 (journal)|Past & Present]]. Vol 173 (1) (2001) pp. 28–49 *''The Troubles of [[Thomas Pestell (born 1584)|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
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==External links== *[http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/haigh_ca.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229130255/http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/haigh_ca.htm |date=29 February 2012 }} Christopher Haigh's website *[http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=178631§ioncode=22] article by Haigh on [[Rodrigo López (physician)|Roderigo Lopez]]
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