This book is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation. It takes as its subject not the conversion of English subjects to a new religion but rather their political responses to a ...

Attentive to the roles played by denial, amnesia, and fabrication, it also considers the retrospective processes by which the English Reformation became identified as an historic event. Examining ...

This period is known as the English Reformation. Religious discrimination grew on both sides and after the reign of Henry VIII, the religion of the king or queen would play a vital role in the ...

Wolf Hall's final chapter, The Mirror and the Light, earned praise for its dramatic conclusion. But what became of Cromwell's ...

Faith of a Nation' that Christianity has been “the reflection, perhaps the embodiment of the English soul.” But his book is ...

Newman, born in 1801, will be the first English saint since the Forty Martyrs, executed under Reformation laws. The first miracle the Catholic convert from Birmingham is said by the Vatican to ...