In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This is the first e

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

This book offers a new perspective to the current debate about popular religious attitudes in Tudor England, laying particular emphasis on the social and secula

The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English

The first comprehensive survey of the religious, social and cultural life of late medieval and Reformation parishes covers town and country, northern as well as