Table of Contents

List of illustrations viii

List of abbreviations x

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction to the revised edition 1

Introduction 5

Part I Academic Prelude

1 Simple esquire: 1489-1503 11

2 Cambridge years: 1503-29 20

Part II The King's Good Servant

3 Campaign to end a marriage: 1527-33 41

4 The reign of Queen Anne: 1533-6 79

5 From Anne Boleyn to Thomas Cromwell: 1535-7 136

6 A 'Reformed' Church? 1535-9 173

7 Salvaging the cause: 1539-42 237

8 A problem of survival: 1542-6 297

Part III The Years of Opportunity

9 Welcoming King Josiah: 1546-9 351

10 1549: Commotion in Church and commonwealth 410

11 Building a Protestant Church: 1550-52 454

Part IV Finding Immortality

12 Paradise betrayed: 1552-3 517

13 Condemned: 1553-6 554

14 Aftermath and retrospect 606

Appendix I Was Stephen Nevinson Cranmer's anonymous biographer? 633

Appendix II The date of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn 637

Appendix III University connections among close relatives, servants and households of Thomas Cranmer and Stephen Gardiner 639

Bibliography 644

Index 671