The Debate on the English Reformation

First published in 2003. The Debate on the English Reformation combines a discussion of the successive historical approaches to the English Reformation from 1525 to the present with a critical review of recent debates in the area, offering a major contribution to modern political, social and religious historiography as well as to Reformation studies.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Contemporary historiography of the English Reformation, 1525–70; Chapter 2 Interpretations of the Reformation from Fuller to Strype; Chapter 3 Historians and contemporary politics: 1780–1850; Chapter 4 The Church of England in crisis: the Reformation heritage; Chapter 5 The Tudor revolution in religion: the twentieth-century debate; Chapter 6 The Reformation and the people; Chapter 7 The church: how it changed;

Rosemary O’Day