How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally de

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English Reformation Centuries on, what the Reformation w