Marianne Novy

The People and the Book

History & Biography

“This clear, vivid, and engaging book stresses the participation of laypeople, including women, in the English Reformation and its aftermath, as the decisions and deaths of four monarchs changed England’s official religion four times in the early seventeenth century. Protestant women provided food and clean shirts to their coreligionist priests in prison; later, Catholics prayed the rosary during Protestant services. The story continues, showing how today the international Anglican Communion maintains diversity within unity.”