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THE VOICES OF MOREBATH: REFORMATION AND REBELLION IN AN ENGLISH VILLAGE
Written by Eamon Duffy.
Stock no. 1831523
Published by Yale University Press. Circa 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This book chronicles the coming of the English Reformation to a small village in sixteenth-century Devonshire. Duffy tells the story of Morebath through the eyes of its boisterous vicar, Sir Christopher Trychay, who kept exceptionally detailed records during his fifty-four year career in the village. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Colour photos. xv and 232 pages including index. ISBN: 0300091850. Second printing. A clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a narrow band of fading to vertical front edge of spine, lightly scuffed to rear panel.

POLICY AND POLICE: THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE REFORMATION IN THE AGE OF THOMAS CROMWELL
Written by G.R. Elton.
Stock no. 1831215
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1972. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The book examines what actually happened during Henry VIII's break with Rome, the widespread resistance which necessitated constant vigilance on the part of the government, and the role of Thomas Cromwell, whose surviving correspondence permits a detailed insight both into the purposes of government and the manner in which it was experienced by the people. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title on red title block to spine. xi and 446 pages including index. ISBN: 0521083834. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Grey dustwrapper is foxed to flap folds, lightly browned to spine and a little grubby to rear panel.

REFORMATION: EUROPE'S HOUSE DIVIDED 1490-1700
Written by Diarmaid Macculloch.
Stock no. 1330806
Published by The Penguin Group. 1st thus 2004. Very good condition.

Paperback edition. 831 pages (including index). B/w plates. ISBN: 0140285342. Spine lightly creased where book has been held open to read. Spine also lightly faded. Foxing to textblock and prelims. Pale page edge browning.

THE ISLAND GARDEN: ENGLAND'S LANGUAGE OF NATION FROM GILDAS TO MARVELL
Written by Lynn Staley.
Stock no. 1830082
Published by University Of Notre Dame Press. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern series. Pictorial cardwraps. A few colour & b/w photos. x and 245 pages including index. ISBN: 9780268041403. Corners of covers lightly rubbed, covers lightly scuffed. Contents clean.

THE SPECIAL COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PRE-1914) AVAILABLE IN GLASGOW PUBLIC LIBRARIES
Written by C.W. Black.
Stock no. 585772
Published by Glasgow Corporation Public Libraries. 1st 1965. Slightly better than very good condition.

Blue cloth spine, grey boards.

DAS AUSGEHENDE MITTELALTER
Written by Gerhard Ficker.
Stock no. 990308
Published by Johann Ambrosius Barth. 1903. Very good condition.

Grey card wraps. 110 pages. Text in German. Und Sein Verhaltnis Zur Reformation. Covers browned.