The Pilgrimage of Grace: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536

Examines the largest insurrection to occur in England between the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and the English Civil War of the 1640s, concentrating on the nine rebel armies mobilized in the North in October 1536. The author proposes that the aim of the rebellion was to safeguard the commonwealth as well as to protect Christ's faith, arguing that it cannot be fully explained as a reaction against the Henrician Reformation. For scholars in 16th-century English history. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.