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Patrick Collinson: The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1 November 2001
The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Politics of the 1530s
by R.W. Hoyle.
Oxford, 487 pp., £30, May 2001,9780198208747 Show More
by R.W. Hoyle.
Oxford, 487 pp., £30, May 2001,
“... The events of 1536-37, a watershed in the history of the North of England and regarded by R.W. Hoyle as England’s War of Religion (albeit a war in which almost no shots were fired), were in the perception of the time ‘commotions’, ‘tumults’, and this is how historians, too, can best understand them. The commotions themselves were all contained ... ”