Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

As the Protestant Reformation progressed in Wales and England under the Tudor dynasty, except during Mary's reign, Catholics began to face persecution. In Wales one poet's response was to label ...

By far the best study of the secularization of not only England but Europe generally is Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, in which he emphasizes that the ending of uniformity in ...

When Mary I ascended to the throne of England, she restored the Roman Catholic Church (Henry VIII had split away from it to form an independent Church of England during the English Reformation ...

The concern of this collection of essays is to redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation.

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