(THE CONVERSATION) Ideological division was tearing the country apart. Factions denounced each other as unpatriotic and evil. There were attempted kidnappings and assassinations of political figures.

FOXE’S BOOK OF MARTYRS edited by G. A. Williamson. 475 pages. Little, Brown. $7.50. God was the gut issue of the 16th century. Modern social historians, eager to prove that the Protestant Reformation ...

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