The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this ...

Before the Reformation, most people in England were Catholic. Their lives centred around the ideas and beliefs of the Catholic Church. This meant that, for many people, Henry’s break with Rome ...

During her 18 years of imprisonment Mary became the focus of several plots to kill Elizabeth and place her on the English thone as the figurehead of a Catholic counter-reformation. These plots ...

An historian of early modern Germany (1500-1800), Marc Forster's research has focused on the development of Catholic identity, primarily in southern and western Germany and more recently on the nature ...