Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558–1630. Michael Questier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xviii + 500 pp. $45

• Published in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 306 - 307
• Main Author: Smuts, R. Malcolm
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Historians; Politics; Renaissance period; England; Scotland; United Kingdom > UK; Ireland

The absence of any sustained historiographic discussion, beyond a generalized disapproval of Whig and Protestant bias and occasional pokes at historians with whom Questier disagrees, makes it difficult for readers to see precisely how his narrative differs from others produced after about 1980. [......