Based on both primary sources and the best scholarship of the last several decades, Leo Solt provides a synthesis of this crucial period which saw the establishment of the Anglican Church and the strengthening of the English monarchy.
'his book, besides providing a judicious narrative of the course of events in the period, also stands as testimony to developments within twentieth-century historiography ... His book will take a place in the literature as one of the few general surveys of the period, and as possibly the most accessible and authoritative.'Robert Eccleshall, Queen's University, Belfast, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 43, No. 1, January 1992
