Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book explains the major historical controversies surrounding the period: the English Reformation the popularity of the Elizabethan Protestant Church the impact of the Laudian innovations of the 1630s the Puritan attempt to control popular culture and belief Princes, Pastors and People also charts the long-term developments across the period in all the key areas including doctrinal and liturgical change, the role of the clergy and the importance of religion in the everyday lives of people. This second edition brings the survey up to date to include the historiographical developments of the last decade and for the first time examines the early years of the sixteenth century and the religious developments from 1500 to 1529.