Reformation in Britain and Ireland

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Authority and control. Papacy ; Crown and church ; The distribution of power

The state of the clergy. The religious ; The seculars

Communities and beliefs. Parish and guild ; The household and piety ; The sacramental economy ; Images and pilgrimages ; Popular dissent

The politics of reform, 1530-1558. Divorce and supremacy ; Jurisdiction and authority in King Henry's realms ; Henrician policy ; The monastic dissolutions ; The end of Henricianism ; Scotland and England, 1542-1550 ; The reign of King Josiah ; Policy in Edwardian and Marian Ireland ; Restoring Catholicism: England, 1553-1558

The clergy in the years of change, 1530-1558. Prelates and councils ; The higher clergy ; Wealth and expropriation ; The parish clergy

Responses to change: the laity and the church. The defence of tradition ; Evangelical environments ; Taxonomies of reform

The word disseminated. The perils of idolatry ; Sola scriptura ; Preaching and teaching ; Idols, words, and texts

Theology and worship. Confessions ; Doctrine before the confessions: Henry VIII's reign ; The Eucharistic debate and Cranmerian liturgy ; Forms of Protestantism: the second generation ; Doctrines of the church in the later sixteenth century ; Calvinist consensus? ; Conclusion

Cuius regio, eius religio? The churches, politics, and religious identities, 1558-1600. Making two Reformations ; Securing the settlements: Scotland and England before the mid-1580s ; Ireland and the Elizabethan settlement ; Defining the Reformations: authority and history ; Hierarchy and discipline ; Financing the churches ; Last decades

Reforming people and community: church, clergy, and laity, 1558-1600. The pastoral ministry ; The congregation: leadership ; The use of the church ; Patterns of worship: communion and the rites of passage ; The practice of discipline ; Inclusion and exclusion ; Assimilating the Reformation?