The typical tale told by Protestant apologists is that the Catholic Church in England at the end of the Middle Ages was all but dead. The people longed for a simple, Bible-based religion free of all ...

The essay examines how the international Protestant identity of the English Church came to be in tension with the later assertion of sacramentalist or Catholic values within it. It chronicles how the ...

As we close out the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the avalanche of commemorative studies is coming to a close. Among them is Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, by ...

Anglicans as well as others often claim that the Reformation in England was mainly ecclesiastical and jurisdictional rather than doctrinal. But do the doctrinal writings of the period support this ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the Journal of British Studies, has ...

Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation. By Peter Marshall. Yale University Press; 652 pages; £30. To be published in America in June, $40. JUST a day after the English Book of ...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined this radical religious revolution in England.

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