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The Reformation

How does a highly religious society cope when almost every aspect of its religious practice is changed? Melvyn Bragg investigates the effect of the Reformation on ordinary people.

How does a highly religious society cope when almost every aspect of its religious practice is changed? Melvyn Bragg investigates the effect of the Reformation on ordinary people.
The upheavals and turmoil of the sixteenth century transformed many aspects of religious life. As the great monasteries and religious houses disappeared, the Reformation transformed the landscape of both the countryside and the towns.

With Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch from St.Cross College Oxford; Dr Susan Brigden, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Lincoln College and Dr Lucy Wooding, lecturer in Early Modern History, King's College London.

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28 minutes

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  • Thu 8 Aug 2002 09:00

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