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Article: Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583.
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2001
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Tudor Histories of the English Reformations, 1530-1583. By Thomas Betteridge. St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. x + 246 pp. $86.95 cloth.
Thomas Betteridge has furnished in this volume a thoughtful and perceptive examination of the English Reformations--Henrician, Edwardian, Marian, and Elizabethan--as reflected in Tudor histories written between 1530 and 1583. Using a wide variety of genre, including chronicles, histories, plays, and poems, he correctly maintains that these works, despite the unstable religious and political situation, attempted both to provide the definitive history of a particular Reformation and justify the ...