The Beginnings of English Protestantism.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds. The Beginnings of English Protestantism. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 242. $20.00 paper. ISBN 0-521-00324-5.

The editors encouraged nine highly-respected historians to address a serious historiographical deficit: the now-reigning revisionist narrative of the English Reformation has up to now paid little attention to the process, from the 1530s to 1558, by which English Protestantism actually won the loyalty of a significant minority of the English population. Historians ought to be able to accept the strength and vitality ...

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