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Article: Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Peter Marshall. Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England.
St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006. viii + 292 pp. index. append. bibl. $114.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5390-0.
Henry VIII changed his world more profoundly than anyone since William the Conqueror. In breaking with Rome in 1533-34 he effected one of the great revolutions of English and European history, the establishment of the royal supremacy, or headship of the new Church of England. The contours of the political and legal nature of this revolution are well known. By contrast, the religious nature of the Henrician Reformation poses challenging, ...