Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation

Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation
Author: Rory McEntegart
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780861932559

The king's own involvement reflected these opposed reactions: he was interested in the Germans as alliance partners and as a consultative source in establishing the theology of his own Church, but at the same time he was reluctant to accept all the religious innovations proposed by the Germans and their English advocates.

The English Primers (1529-1545)

The English Primers (1529-1545)
Author: Charles C. Butterworth
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512815012

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists
Author: Albert Pleysier
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0761862986

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king. The book begins with the birth of Anabaptism in the city of Zurich and follows the Anabaptists as they search for religious freedom across the European Continent. Intolerant of religious diversity and sensitive to potential threats to his political authority, Henry’s suppression ultimately leaves the Anabaptists with two choices: recant or burn.

The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation

The English Parish Clergy on the Eve of the Reformation
Author: Peter Heath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135031940

This detailed study of the parish clergy in England on the Eve of the break with Rome is based on a wide variety of documentary sources, both ecclesiastical and secular, ranging from diocesan records to sworn evidence offered in litigation and acc