literary texts. The nineteenth-century canon included art and architecture as well as theological and spiritual writings. Although they are not the main focus of the present study, some attention is given through the course of the book to some highly influential interpretations of medieval and Reformation history, such as Percy Dearmer’s exhaustive, if somewhat eccentric, reading of precisely what was permitted in worship during the second year of the reign of Edward VI, which is discussed in Chapter
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