Commonwealth and the English Reformation: Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 1483-1560

Commonwealth and the English Reformation Focuses on the response to broad liturgical and doctrinal change, and also looks at how theological and reform messages could be utilized among local leaders and civic elites. This book shows how monasteries, endowed initially out of the charitable impulses of elites, increasingly came to depend increasingly on lay stewards to remain viable. Full description