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G.R. Elton’s Reform and Reformation is one of the standard accounts and is very solid.
Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars argues that popular Catholicism in late medieval England was vigorous, not at all decadent as some historians have claimed.
Alison Weir is one of the most readable and prolific popular historians of the Tudor monarchy. Her Six Wives of Henry VIII and Children of Henry VIII are good introductions to the topics. Also recommended is Antonia Fraser’s Wives of Henry VIII.
Diarmaid MacCulloch has written outstanding scholarly treatments of Thomas Cranmer (Thomas Cranmer: A Life) and Edward VI (The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation).
Documents of the English Reformation, including the Act of Supremacy, the Thirty-Nine Articles, the Book of Common Prayer, and many others.

English Reformation – Quiz

For his work defending the seven sacraments against Martin Luther, Henry VIII was granted the title __________________ by the pope.
When his first wife, _______________, passed the age of childbearing without bearing a son, Henry VIII began seeking a divorce in order to marry __________________.
Henry VIII used the legal proceeding of _______________ against the English clergy to force their submission to him in breaking away from Rome.
In the ___________________ of the 1530s, Henry seized church lands and sold them off to the gentry.
During the reign of ______________, the regency government moved to implement a more thorough Protestantism in the Church of England.
Mary I formed a marriage alliance with _____________ of Spain, but failed to produce an heir by him, leaving the succession open to her sister, Elizabeth.
The ___________________ in the early part of Elizabeth’s reign reestablished Protestantism in England, although many features of the worship service remained similar to those of the Roman Catholic church.

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