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England’s Long Reformation: 1500-1800

  TYACKE, Nicholas (editor). 2003 Challenges the notion that the Reformation was purely a 16th-century phenomenon and takes a broader look at “the making of a Protestant nation” over three centuries.  

Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England

  THOMSON, Andrew. 2022 A survey of three dioceses across the course of the seventeenth century, covering such issues as attendance at court, completion of business and the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. This study challenges orthodox perceptions of excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues […]

Female Servants in Early Modern England.

  MANSELL, Charmian 2024 Mansell draws on over 1000 testimonies drawn from English church court records of the experiences of women in domestic service between 1532 and 1649.  

Elizabethan Controversialists.

  MILWARD, Peter. 2022 This work is, in effect, Peter Milward’s guided tour of his survey, Religious controversies of the Elizabethan age. Published posthumously.  

Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England.

  MONTA, Susannah Brietz. 2005 A study of the representation of Protestant and Catholic martyrs during the Reformation, illustrating the competing discourses of martyrdom, exploring a wide range of sources, many of which were popular in their day, but have since fallen into neglect and obscurity.