Brief Chronicles and True Accounts: Tudor Histories of the English Reformation, 1530-83

by Thomas Betteridge

This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes they introduced. Indeed the English Reformation as a historical event was written, and rewritten, by Henrician, Edwardian, Marian and Elizabethan historians to provide legitimation for the religious policies of the government of the day. Starting with John Bale's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840142812
• ISBN13: 9781840142815
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages