Description: The contributors to this volume propose that the years 1556-57 saw the Marian Counter Reformation in all its aspects reach its height, with a truly national coordination of both religious enforcement and religious persuasion. With intensifying persecution came intensifying religious reaction. The volume book looks at both from the detailed perspect
Review Quotes:
"Impressively well-structured, interdisciplinary book that offers new, important interpretations of Marian England"
- Retha M. Warnicke, Arizona State University.
"Evenden and Westbrook are to be congratulated for editing a volume of high quality articles which adds substantially to our knowledge of both Protestants and Catholics in Marian England. Catholic renewal and Protestant resistance is another milestone in the journey away from the outdated view of Mary's reign as an unproductive cul-de-sac in English history."
- THOMAS S. FREEMAN, University of Essex