Storm’s Edge

Praise for Peter Marshall’s Heretics and Believers, winner of the 2018 Wolfson Prize ‘Peter Marshall has written a fine history of a momentous time as seen from the bottom up, drawing on a wide range of primary sources and his evident scholarship … a riveting account of the losers as well, the English zealots and cynics who wanted a better world, or an unchanging one’ Economist ‘An eminently readable narrative that avoids flattening out irregularities in the story … Marshall's analysis, his control of documentary material and his imaginative manoeuvres between the corridors of power and the streets and alehouses is impressive’ Malcolm Gaskill, Financial Times ‘A profound book with a light touch – and all the more impressive in that the author is covering almost a century of intellectual, social, and religious history … It will be a long time before the book is surpassed’ Michael Coren, Globe and Mail ‘A magisterial, panoramic and compelling new account of a phenomenon that was never just a top-down, institutionalised and ordered act of state. Peter Marshall reveals how the English Reformation was nurtured within the religious beliefs, culture and polity that it profoundly transformed, and thereby recovers its momentousness’ Mark Greengrass, author of Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 ‘A remarkable book that will, without doubt, become the definitive narrative of the English Reformation for years to come. Marshall writes with deep understanding and great panache, moving us masterfully beyond tired debates about whether the Reformation was 'good' or 'bad' and bringing his subject vividly to life’ Christopher Marsh, author of Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England