The education of a Christian society: humanism and the Reformation in Britain and the Netherlands : papers delivered to the Thirteenth Anglo-Dutch Historical Conference, 1997

Throughout the sixteenth century, political and intellectual developments in Britain and The Netherlands were closely intertwined.

At different times religious refugees from one or other country found a secure haven across the Channel, and a constant interchange of books, ideas and personnel underscored the affinity of lands which both made a painful progress towards Protestantism during the course of the century.