Popular Politics and the English Reformation.(Book Review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Kesselring, K.J. | Copyright information

by Ethan H. Shagan. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii, 341 pp. $70 US (cloth), $25.00 US (paper).

With this revision of his doctoral dissertation, Ethan Shagan offers a thoughtful, well-researched intervention into the debates on the nature of the English Reformation. Whereas the older historiography depicted a Reformation in which royal policies were quickly accepted by an anti-clerical population tired of its ties to Rome, more recent studies portray a d...

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