1972: Saint John Fisher, by E. E. Reynolds (Rev. ed., Wheathampstead - Hertfordshire, 1972).

Reynolds states, inter alia, in the "Preface to the Second Edition:

"Since 1955 a number of important studies of the Tudor period, the Renaissance and the Reformation, have been published. These have led me to adjust some of my earlier views."

1991: The Theology of John Fisher, by Richard Rex (Cambridge, 1991).

The Cambridge UP dust cover summary states:

"This book investigates the life and work of Fisher the scholar from his arrival in Cambridge in the 1480s to his prolonged literary campaign against Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon in the years 1527-31. It traces the intellectual influences of scholasticism and humanism in his education and his subsequent career, and the way in which he attempted to cope with the tensions between the authority of the Church and the critical implications of humanist study. It demonstrates that the charge of obscurantist conservatism so often levelled against both the English hierarchy of the time and the early opponents of the Reformation is wholly inappropriate in his case. ... The book's aim is to rescue one of the greatest intellectuals of early sixteenth-century England from the shade into which he has been thrown, partly by his own heroic death, and partly by the disproportionate attention given to his fellow martyr Thomas More."

1992: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, by Eamon Duffy (New Haven CT and London, U.K. 1992).

The cover of the Yale UP softcover states:

"This major revisionist account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion in 15th-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system."

1987: The English Reformation Revised, ed. by Christopher Haigh (Cambridge, 1987, reprt. 1988).

The cover of the Cambridge UP softcover states:

"Twenty years ago, historians thought they understood the Reformation in England. Professor A. G. Dicken's elegant 'The English Reformation' was then new, and highly influential: it seemed to show how national policy and developing reformist allegiance interacted to produce an acceptable and successful Protestant Reformation. But, since then, the evidence of the statute book, of Protestant propagandists and of heresy trials has come to seem less convincing. Neglected documents, especially the records of diocesan administration and parish life, have been explored, new questions have been asked - and many of the answers have been surprising. Some of the old certainties have been demolished, and many of the assumptions of the old interpretation of the Reformation have been undermined, in a wide-ranging process of revision.

But the fruits of the new 'revisionism' are still buried in technical academic journals, difficult for students and teachers to find and use. There is no up-to-date textbook, no comprehensive new survey, to challenge the orthodoxies enshrined in older works. This volume seeks to fulfill two crucial needs for students of Tudor England. First, it brings together some of the most readable of the recent innovative essays and articles into a single book. Second, it seeks to show how a new 'revisionist' interpretation of the English Reformation can be constructed, and examines its strengths and weaknesses. In short, it is an alternative to a new textbook survey - until someone has time (and courage) to write one."

1993: English Reformations: Religion, Politics and Society under the Tudors, by Christopher Haigh (Oxford, 1993, reprt. 1994).

The cover of the Oxford UP softcover states:

"'English Reformations' takes a refreshing new approach to the study of the Reformation in England. Christopher Haigh's lively and readable study disproves any facile assumption that the triumph of Protestantism was inevitable, and goes beyond the surface of official political policy to explore the religious views and practices of ordinary English people. With the benefit of hindsight, many historians have traced the course of the Reformation as a series of events inescapably culminating in the creation of an English Protestant establishment. Dr. Haigh sets out to recreate the sixteenth century as a time of excitement and insecurity, with each new policy or ruler causing the reversal of earlier religious changes. This is a scholarly and stimulating book, which challenges traditional ideas about the Reformation and offers a powerful and convincing alternative analysis.