📱 eBook en inglés LONDON AND THE REFORMATION

London and the Reformation (1989) was the first book by Susan Brigden (later to win the prestigious Wolfson Prize for her Thomas Wyatt: The Hearts Forest). It tells of Londons sixteenth-century transformation by a new faith that was both fervently evangelised and fiercely resisted, as a succession of governments and monarchs - Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary - vied for control. Londons disproportionate size and wealth, its mix of social forces and high politics, and the strength of its religious sectors made the capital a key factor in the reception of the English Reformation. Brigden draws upon rich archival sources to examine how these religious dilemmas were confronted.

A tour de force of historical narrative... which can be read with both pleasure and profit by scholars and non-scholars alike.Times Literary Supplement

Magisterial... richly detailed... teeming with the vivid street language of the sixteenth century. London Review of Books