Historiography contemporary to the English Reformation, 1525-70 -- Interpretations of the Reformation from Fuller to Strype -- Historians and contemporary politics, 1780-1850 -- The Church of England in crisis : the Reformation heritage -- The Tudor revolution in religion : the twentieth-century debate -- The Reformation and the people : Discovery -- The Church : how it changed -- The debate in the age of peer review -- The place of the Reformation in modern biography, fiction and the media -- Conclusion : Reformation : reformulation, reiteration and reflection