Books: Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
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This book will illustrate to its readers how little human beings change. One man's righteous cause is another man's persecution. Click here for past recommendations. Description Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of “reform” in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora’s Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life.
Books: Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Books: Heretics and Believers: A History of…
Books: Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
This book will illustrate to its readers how little human beings change. One man's righteous cause is another man's persecution. Click here for past recommendations. Description Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of “reform” in various competing guises. King Henry VIII wanted an orderly, uniform Reformation, but his actions opened a Pandora’s Box from which pluralism and diversity flowed and rooted themselves in English life.