A study of popular responses to the English Reformation after Henry VIII's break from Rome.

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. The Break with Rome and the Crisis of Conservatism: 1. 'Schismatics be now plain heretics': debating the royal supremacy over the Church of England; 2. The anatomy of opposition in early Reformation England: the case of Elizabeth Barton, the holy maid of Kent; 3. Politics and the Pilgrimage of Grace revisited; Part II. Points of Contact: The Henrician Reformation and the English People: 4. Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation; 5. Selling the sacred: Reformation and dissolution at the Abbey of Hailes; 6. 'Open disputation was in alehouses': religious debate in the diocese of Canterbury, c. 1543; Part III. Sites of Reformation: Collaboration and Popular Politics under Edward VI: 7. Resistance and collaboration in the dissolution of the chantries; 8. The English people and the Edwardian Reformation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.