This book examines the Tudor histories of the English Reformation written in the period 1530-83. All the reforming mid-Tudor regimes used historical discourses to support the religious changes they introduced.

Thomas Betteridge

Contents: Introduction; History,chronicles and the Apocalypse; Identity, Protestantism and history; Politics, counsel and publicness; John Bale, Edward Halle and the Henrician Reformation; Anne Askewe, John Bale and the 'unwritten verities' of history; 'Making new novelties old': Marian histories of the Reformation; John Foxe and the writing of history; Conclusion: history and persecution; Bibliography; Index.