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The Reformation in Britain and Ireland: An Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume is a new and wide-ranging introduction to the Reformation throughout the British Isles. Full treatment is given to the fascinating and often very different but interrelated experiences in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The approach is unique. Previous introductions have invariably concentrated on England, with lesser sections on Wales and Scotland, often ignoring Ireland...

To recapitulate on these diversities: there were two Crowns, and soon to be at least a nominal third Crown when Ireland was declared a kingdom in 1541 by Henry VIII. There were three Parliaments, in London, Dublin and Edinburgh. There were four nations, English, Welsh, Scots and Irish, though Ireland was divided ethnically, politically (and ecclesiastically) into Anglo-Norman or Old English, and Gaelic Irish zones. There were ten languages in use: Latin, English, Welsh, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Norn,
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