This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England: its impact on the status of the dead. Protestant refor

How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences? Following a

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The Reformation transformed English religion. For many, the spirituality of the preceding period remains largely unknown, or overburdened with Protestant mythol

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical impo