Peter Marshall

In this Very Short Introduction, now thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the most recent scholarship, Peter Marshall argues that the Reformation was a long-term process of social, political, and cultural change.

Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall's sweeping new history argues that 16th-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change, but one open to ideas of "reform" in various competing guises....

Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg in 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. But did it actually really happen? Leading Reformation historian Peter Marshall concludes that very probably, it did not....

Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch....