Abstract

For more than half a century after King Henry VIII’s 1536 reformation of the English church, its leaders were obliged to manage the transformation of devotional habits of worshippers from the routine of the medieval church to the practices of the post-Reformation era.1 During this period the church was wracked by division and controversy. Partisans disagreed violently as they embraced differing forms of Christian worship and life, Catholic and Protestant — a situation that contributed to the drive for American colonization in the seventeenth century.2

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