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The English Reformation (2nd edn). By A. G. Dickens. Pp. 461. London: B. T. Batsford, 1989 (first publ. 1964). £25. 0 7134 3669 7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Richard Rex
Richard Rex
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St John's College, Cambridge
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 315 - 320
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References

1 Dickens, A. G., ‘The shape of anticlericalism and the English Reformation’, in Kouri, E. I. and Scott, T. (eds.), Politics and Society in Reformation Europe, London 1987, 379–410CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and ‘The early expansion of Protestantism in England’, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichk xxviii (1987), 187–221.Google Scholar

2 Dickens, , ‘The shape of anticlericalism’, 380 and 384Google Scholar.

3 Contrast his judgements, made elsewhere, that Protestantism was by 1553 ‘a formidable and seemingly ineradicable phenomenon in fairly large and very populous areas of marked political importance’, while later recusancy was ‘in every sense a severely limited phenomenon’. See Dickens, , ‘Early expansion’, 189 and ‘The first stages of Romanist recusancy in Yorkshire, 1560–1590’, in Reformation Studies, 159–83Google Scholar, at p. 180.

4 See especially Alsop, J. D., ‘Religious preambles in early modern English wills’, this JOURNAL xl (1989), 19–27.Google Scholar

5 For Stafford's will, 19 June 1529, see Cambridge University Library, University Archives, Vice-Chancellor's Court, Probate Register I, fol. 49V; for Young's, see Public Record Office, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Probate 11/64 (Tyrwhit, 40), fol. (consulted on microfilm).

6 See for example Clark, P. A., English Provincial Society, London 1977, 59Google Scholar, or Palliser, D. A., Tudor York, Oxford 1979, 250–1Google Scholar, to name but two of many local studies which handle the testamentary evidence with a more sensitive touch

7 See for example the opening of his article, ‘The Reformation in England’, in Reformation Studies, 443–56Google Scholar