Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book describes the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. It presents the global history of Christianity.

The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down.

The Tudor age was a tumultuous one a time of the Reformation, conspiracies, uprisings and rebellions. The Tudor Rebellions gives a chronological run-down of the major rebellions and throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty's attempt to bring the north and west under the control of the capital, the progress of the English Reformation and the impact of ...

Presents the surviving letters originating from long-vanished Suffolk mansion, an important part of the correspondence of one of England's most powerful families. This book, through the letters, reveals the lives and preoccupations of English provincial magnates and their often uneasy relationship to the great political figures of the realm.

This account of the reformation in England under Edward VI challenges many established views and also gives an account of the religion of young Elizabeth I.

Thomas Cranmer was the architect of Henry VIII's unprecedented divorce and established the first stage of the reformed English church, while supplying its standard liturgy - the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. This book traces Cranmer's life from his Midlands roots to death at the stake in Oxford.

This book discusses the developing Reformation in England through the later Tudor reigns: Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. It provides a narrative of events, then discusses the ideas which shaped the English Reformation, and surveys the ways in which the English reacted to it.