Lucy begins by demolishing one of the founding myths about the English Reformation: far from being a ready ally of Martin Luther’s Protestant revolution, Henry remained a Catholic to his death.

Morgan's magnificent achievement made Welsh the only non-state language of Protestant Europe to be the medium of a published Bible within a century of the Reformation, a key factor in its ...

Although Reformation had been under way in Germany ... Yet Henry did follow some semi-Protestant policies, in particular with regard to monasticism. Between 1536 and 1540 all religious houses ...