However, the most striking aspect of the treatment of this period by the whole ‘Whig-Protestant’ tradition was the extent to which it was ignored altogether.
On this interpretation, the forward march of Protestantism was hindered in the early 1540s, as religious conservatives vied with evangelicals for the ear of the king, and scored some successes. Dickens' view is best summed up by the title of the relevant chapter in his survey: ‘A balance of forces’. The period 1539–47, however, contains its own distinct set of historiographical tiger traps. But the seeds of the movement, according to A.G.Dickens, were planted much earlier.
Henry VIII officially brought the Protestant Reformation to England in the 1530s when he severed the English Church from the Papacy. Dickens' influential account of the English Reformation had followed the deepest of these channels, cut by John Foxe in the sixteenth century. This book presents a new edition of the classic study of the religious changes that transformed England in the sixteenth century. Christopher Haigh, for example, judged that A. This is particularly so when negotiating a landscape as scarred by passage as the English Reformation. Historians aspire to follow our evidence impartially and fearlessly, over whatever terrain it may lead us but in practice we often find ourselves being drawn along the paths beaten by our predecessors. The heauen is hye, the earth is depe, and the kynges herte is vnsearcheable.
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