Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire

by Christopher Haigh

Book Overview

Historians have long known that Lancashire remained more solidly Catholic after the Reformation than any other part of England, but the peculiarity of the area has never been explained. This book argues that for geographical, social and economic, as well as religious reasons, orthodox Catholicism in the county was at its high-point immediately before the Reformation, so that the history of religious change in Lancashire in the sixteenth century is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521083931
• ISBN13: 9780521083935
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"