One of the more unpleasant tussles of historical writing, the story of the English Reformation, itself seems to be passing into history. Once, on the Catholic side, it was a story of infamy, of Henry VIII’s lust and tyranny, the arrogance of a handful of treacherous “so-called reformers”, the injustice of Henry’s persecuting “bastard child” Elizabeth I taking the throne. (See for example, R.F. Walker, An Outline History of the Catholic Church.) The Protestants played to their own strengths: the burnings under “Bloody Mary”, Henry’s first and Catholic daughter; the Catholic Spanish Armada attempting invasion to unseat Elizabeth; the Spanish…
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