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).

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• 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

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).

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• 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