Heretics and Believers

Explore the contentious Reformation era in Peter Marshall's sweeping new history. Winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize, this first major overview for general readers argues that 16th-century England was open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises. Marshall frames the perceptions and actions of people great and small against a backdrop of profound change that altered the meanings of "religion" itself, revealing what was really at stake in the overthrow of Catholic culture and the reshaping of the English Church.