This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.

Autumn 1536. Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed for male heir. Disaffected conservat

An examination of the significance and function of oaths in the English Reformation.

Operating principally from original sources, it revises the standard work of the Dodds and appraises the research produced in the subject over the last thirty y

During the Pilgrimage of Grace for a short time Henry VIII lost control of the North of England and there was a very real possibility of civil war. Protesting a