This volume explores the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in Britain. Addressing issues from book history, to popular politics and theological polemic, it identifies how British reception contributed to continued reform on the continent, and considers the perception (and invention) of England's 'exceptional' status.

Reformation and the Uses of Reception ; The Fog in the Channel Clears: The Rediscovery of the Continental Dimension to the British Reformation ; The Authority of Antiquity: England and the Protestant Latin Bible ; Unreliable Witnesses ; Erasmus or Calvin? The politics of book purchase in the early modern English parish ; The Reception of Martin Luther in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England ; Peter Martyr Vermigli's political theology and the Elizabethan Church ; John Knox, Christopher Goodman and the 'Example of Geneva' ; The Church of England and the Palatinate, 1566-1642 ; Martin Bucer and Early Seventeenth-Century Scottish Irenicism ; 'A Reformation of Common Learning': Educational reform in Reformed central Europe and its reception in the English-speaking world, c. 1642 ; Afterword