Religion was important in England from c.1000 to c.1500. The Church and religious beliefs played an important role in law and order. Clergy were often the most educated members of the community.

The concern of this collection of essays is to redress two balances at once: to tell the story of what the Reformation did for the towns of England, and of what the towns did for the Reformation.

Between 1529 and 1537, Henry VIII worked tirelessly to separate the English Church from the Catholic Church, led by the Pope in Rome. He created an independent Church of England of which he was ...

The earliest Latin Commentary on the Gospels, lost for over 1500 years, has been rediscovered and made available in English for the first time, thanks to research from the University of Birmingham. | ...