The Age of Reformation

Now in its third edition, The Age of Reformation has been fully updated and extended, offering a comprehensive study of the relationships between religion, politics and social change in the sixteenth century.

Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, emeritus Professor of Divinity at Gresham College, London and a Fellow of the British Academy. His publications on the history of the Reformation and of Protestantism include Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013), Protestants (2017), Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019), and The World's Reformation (2025).

1. The World of the Parish 2. Politics and Religion in Two Kingdoms, 1485-1513 3. The Renaissance 4. Renaissance to Reformation 5. Supreme Head: Henry VIII's Reformation, 1527-47 6. The English Revolution: Edward VI, 1547-53 7. Two Restorations: Mary and Elizabeth, 1553-60 8. Reformation on the Battlefield: Scotland, 1542-73 9. Gaping Gulfs: Elizabethan England and the Politics of Fear 10. Reforming the World of the Parish 11. Reformation and Empire Epilogue: Electing a Monarch, 1603