Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Albion | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

Rory McEntegart. Henry VIII, The League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series.) Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press for the Royal Historical Society. 2002. Pp. x, 244. $75.00. ISBN 0-86193-255-2.

Rory McEntegart's book is a formidable piece of scholarship. As anyone who has worked on early modern German manuscripts can testify, his labors in the archives of Marburg, Munich, and Weimar, not to mention the usual British repositories, are worthy of the highest praise. In dealing with Henry's relations to ...

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