Synopsis

Historians of the English Reformation who have focused primarily on political, materialistic, or societal causes have largely missed the point, says Vidmar, an American historian of the Catholic Church in particular but religion in general: these were the effects on the people of England, but what caused the Reformation, drove it, and gave it its main direction was religion. He looks at Catholic historians of the event during the period between the first—Nicholas Sander's Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism—to the last truly Ultramontanist history—Philip Hughes' The Reformation in England. In the evolution of their work he points out patterns and directions of thought that would otherwise look like unrelated moments in Catholic thinking. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR