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Cromwell to Cromwell

Reformation to Civil War John Schofield

To be published on 2nd November 2009

at £20, hardback

How England became radical and revolutionary within the hundred years between Thomas and Oliver

The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.

Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience, the will of the king should prevail. Yet just after 100 years later, Charles I was called the ‘man of blood’, and Oliver Cromwell famously declared that ‘we will cut off his head with the crown on it’.

• A new approach to the causes of the Civil War. • Re-appraises the legacy of Thomas Cromwell. • An accessible account of two of the most important episodes in English history. • Explains how the deferential Reformation became a regicidal revolution. • Examines how the English character and the way it perceived royal rule changed between the time of Thomas Cromwell and his great-great-grandnephew Oliver. John Schofield is a Visiting Scholar in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He holds a PhD in Reformation History. He is the author of Philip Melancthon and the English Reformation and Cromwell to Cromwell is the sequel to The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell, published in 2008. He lives in North Shields.

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