Peter Marshall is professor of history at the University of Warwick, winner of the Harold J. Grimm Prize for Reformation History, and author of numerous books, including The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction. His book Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation was the winner of the 2018 Wolfson History Prize. He lives in Leamington Spa, UK.
"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 maneuvers between the
corridors of power and the streets and alehouses is
impressive."—Malcolm Gaskill, Financial Times
“A balanced and judicious account of the English
Reformation.”—Arnold Hunt, TLS
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2018
“A beautifully judged account of the English Reformation. Marshall
weaves a single narrative through a contentious century without
loss of detail or depth of understanding. Full of wise and humane
analysis, this is ambitious in scope and brilliant in
execution.”
—Wolfson Prize Judges
"With pleasing dispatch Peter Marshall’s compelling new history of
England’s Reformation sweeps all the historians down into the
footnotes and just tells the story as he sees it. . . . This is the
human story within the grand narrative, written with fluidity and
warmth, its scholarship providing a firm foundation without being
intrusive, its analysis thoughtful, not polemical."—Lucy Wooding,
Literary Review
"The joy of Peter Marshall’s book is that it makes this most
hackneyed of historical epics feel fresh and unexpected. More so
than any historian of the period working today, Marshall is equally
sensitive and perceptive in dealing with both Protestants and
Catholics. . . . It is a much-told tale, but I don’t think it
has ever been told with more humanity, balance, atmosphere, wit and
learning. I wish I’d written it. Buy it, and make time to read
it."—Alec Ryrie, The Tablet
"Marshall has a knowledge of the personalities and the detail and
texture of events which few living scholars can match. He makes
masterly use of the enormous range of quotable texts to bring to
life the dilemmas that his characters faced."—G.R. Evans, Church
Times
"Marshall’s account of this seemingly well-worn topic never seems
stale or perfunctory. There is a sense of real people being
affected by real issues, the distant hubbub of which can still just
about be heard in the pages of this insightful and immersive
book.”—Mark Jones, Albion
“A tour de force that transforms our understanding of, what
Marshall himself terms, ‘one of the best-known and most widely
discussed epochs in English history: the Reformation of the
sixteenth century.”
—Henry Jeffries, Irish Historical Studies
“This is a superb narrative history of the English Reformation . .
. If you want a book that tells the story in a powerful, effective
way, held together with an excellent thesis and illustrative
anecdotes, this will serve you well. I foresee that this will
become a standard text for those who teach the English
Reformation.”
—Norman Jones, Renaissance Quarterly
“Outstanding work. . . a grand, sweeping view of the Reformation’s
impact in England, perhaps the first large scale revisiting of a
people’s history approach to the religious upheaval of the Tudor
period since Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars.”—Chris
Skidmore, Books of the Year 2017, BBC History
“An outstanding study of one of the most eventful periods in
English history. . . This is historical scholarship at its
accessible best.”—Rev. Dr. Martin Wellings, Methodist Recorder
“The book contains a massive amount of detail, and it is well
written” —Fiction’s Fan Book Reviews
“Heretics and Believers provides readers with a wonderful
opportunity to expand their historical horizons. Peter Marshall
does an excellent job in tracing the antecedents of the English
Reformation, profiling key figures and institutions and tracing the
chronological development of attempts at reform (and opposition to
it).”—Philip Scheepers, Vox Reformata
Peter Marshall has won The Wolfson History Prize 2018 for
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation.
“In a field crowded with exceptionally able histories, Heretics and
Believers stands out as a treasure.”—Mark Noll, author of
Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction
"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 commanding re-interpretation of a deeply significant process of
change: analytically subtle, thematically all-encompassing, and
full of real people."—Steven Gunn, author of Henry VII's New
Men and the Making of Tudor England
"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
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