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There was indeed a Reformation in England in 1529, which accepted a number of distinct changes in religious organisation, practice and belief: a diminution of clerical authority, a suppression of monasteries and chantries, elimination of papal primacy, and a supplant of the mass by Protestant rituals. The redefinition of the Roman Catholic Church's divinity suggest that the Church seemed in desperate need of reform in order for the above practices and beliefs to have occurred, but was the Reformation a result of entrenched popular demand for religious change or because it was actually in need of reform? The term 'reform' can be described as a means of adopting a more acceptable way of practice, although this does not necessarily imply the destruction of the Church, its various forms of worship or its structure. Haigh, who seeks to improve the Foxe-Dickens approach by countering the long-term religious discontents concerning the Catholic...

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