Eamon Duffy on English Reformation

From a good, summary article....

But in multicultural England, the inherited Protestant certainties are
fading. It is time to look again at the Reformation story. There was
nothing inevitable about the Reformation. The heir to the throne is
uneasy about swearing to uphold the Protestant faith, and it seems
less obvious than it once did that the religion which gave us the
Wilton Diptych and Westminster Abbey, or the music of Tallis, Byrd and
Elgar, is intrinsically un-English. The destruction of the monasteries
and most of the libraries, music and art of medieval England now looks
what it always was – not a religious breakthrough, but a cultural
calamity. The slaughtered Popish martyrs look less like an alien fifth
column than the voices of a history England was not allowed to have.

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