By combining politics, culture, theology and psychology in this way – and by complementing the resulting narrative with key primary sources from the period – this book arms readers to study, explore and understand the British Reformations in new and important ways.

Covering England, Scotland and Wales but placing Britain into the wider context of Europe, this book provides students which a comprehensive study of how the British Isles and its people were affected by the Reformation.

Reformation was a process, not an event and this book charts both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations which took place under Henry VIII, Mary I and Elizabeth I to show students new to the period how these events shaped the course of the sixteenth century.