Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national,

From the counter-reformation through the twentieth century, the notion of sacrifice has played a key role in French culture and nationalist politics. Ivan Stren

The complex web of events which we call the Reformation had a profound and lasting effect on English life. This book is a new attempt to understand how it 'happ

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, ra