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**1. Belloc, H.** (1992). //Characters of the reformation, historical portraits of the 23 men and women and their place in the great religious revolution of the 16th century//. TAN Books. Examines each person's role, showing how they led to the split of Western Christendom. Luther, Calvin, various popes, and political figures are there. Belloc also includes overlooked characters, especially women like Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.

This is a brief but sweeping overview of the Reformation, concentrating mainly on the political and social forces at work during the whole period.
 * 2. Belloc, H.** (2009). //How the Reformation Happened.// TAN Books.

**3. Cobbett, W.** (2009). //History of the protestant reformation in england and ireland//. (paperback ed.). St. Benedict Press & TAN Books. An accurate and compelling chronicle of the events which followed Henry VIII s break with Rome, the destruction of monasteries and displacement of countless thousands of tenant farmers from monastic lands which rapidly produced a vast number of homeless poor.

**4. Hillderbrand, H.** (2009). //The protestant reformation//. (Revised ed. ed.). Harper Perennial. This is a selection of primary source readings from the period of the Protestant Reformation.

Widely considered to be the authoritative account of the Reformation.
 * 5. ** **MacCulloch, D.** (2004). //The reformation//. Penguin Group USA.

**6. Ozment, S. E.** (1980). //The age of reform (1250-1550), an intellectual and religious history of late medieval and reformation europe//. (1st ed ed.). London: Yale University Press. This book argues that the story of the Reformation does not begin with the posting of the 95 theses in 1517. Rather, the events of the 1500s were the culmination of a centuries-old search for truth.