Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Marjo Kaartinen. Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation. New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. Viii, 210. $60.00. ISBN 0-333-96924-3.

In the words of its author Marjo Kaartinen's Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation is "an exploration of attitudes towards the religious life during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547), an attempt to capture the mentality of the people who lived in those tumultuous times" (p. 1). By examining both the attitudes of the religious themselves and those of others towards them it explores "what was thought to be ...

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