Religion in Tudor England

Debora Shuger and Ethan Shagan’s Religion in Tudor England is a remarkable book. A wide-ranging, illuminating, and wonderfully accessible anthology of primary documents from the sixteenth century, it permits readers to hear the edgy particularities of religious thought and feeling of the period, and it also ensures that these individual voices join together in pointedly imperfect harmony to tell the complicated story of how and how much religion mattered to the age.

~David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University

This is a rich, imaginative and original selection of key documents, with an authoritative introduction and framing commentaries. Students will profit greatly from using it.

~Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, St Cross College, University of Oxford

Anyone looking for a collection of documents illustrative of the conventional history of Reformation and post-Reformation England need look no further. Religion in Tudor England is an indispensable aid for all teachers of English religious history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

~Peter Lake, University Distinguished Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

In its complexity, Religion in Tudor England presents an indispensable and innovative tool for the rediscovery of otherwise inaccessible selections, texts, and pamphlets for the academic community. The volume, in addition to bringing to light these writings of decisive importance, constitutes a valuable opportunity for deepening and stimulating new research on the religious climate, factions, and tensions that pervaded the British Isles during the troubled hundred years following the succession of the Tudors to the English throne.

~Stefano Colavecchia, Sixteenth Century Journal