Protestant Country
George Bernard, 14 June 1990
Humanism, Reform and the Reformation: The Career of Bishop John Fisher
edited by Brendan Bradshaw and Eamon Duffy.
Cambridge, 260 pp., £27.50, January 1989,0 521 34034 9 Show More
edited by Brendan Bradshaw and Eamon Duffy.
Cambridge, 260 pp., £27.50, January 1989,
The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation
by Robert Whiting.
Cambridge, 302 pp., £30, July 1989,0 521 35606 7 Show More
by Robert Whiting.
Cambridge, 302 pp., £30, July 1989,
The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603
by Stanford Lehmberg.
Princeton, 319 pp., £37.30, March 1989,0 691 05539 4 Show More
by Stanford Lehmberg.
Princeton, 319 pp., £37.30, March 1989,
Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England
by David Cressy.
Weidenfeld, 271 pp., £25, October 1989,0 297 79343 8 Show More
by David Cressy.
Weidenfeld, 271 pp., £25, October 1989,
The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the 16th and 17th Centuries
by Patrick Collinson.
Macmillan, 188 pp., £29.50, February 1989,0 333 43971 6 Show More
by Patrick Collinson.
Macmillan, 188 pp., £29.50, February 1989,
Life’s Preservative against Self-Killing
by John Sym, edited by Michael MacDonald.
Routledge, 342 pp., £29.95, February 1989,0 415 00639 2 Show More
by John Sym, edited by Michael MacDonald.
Routledge, 342 pp., £29.95, February 1989,
Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640-1660
by Nigel Smith.
Oxford, 396 pp., £40, February 1989,0 19 812879 7 Show More
by Nigel Smith.
Oxford, 396 pp., £40, February 1989,
“... break with Rome. Only one did so outspokenly – and he was rewarded by a martyr’s death. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was executed in June 1535 for refusing (like Thomas More) to take the oath of succession. He was prepared to swear to the succession itself, which he believed that King and nobles were entitled to change, but was unwilling to ... ”
