Scarisbrick in The Reformation and the English People. More recent works, however, have challenged this view. The pre-Reformation Catholic Church, long considered to be hopelessly ransacked by inept priests, a morally bankrupt Papacy, and an indifferent populace, was ripe for reform, and Protestantism put forward a positive agenda for needed change. Furthermore, Dickens sees the English Reformation as not merely a religious quarrel between king and priests but also part of a longer story of Protestantism within the national development of England in the struggle for independence and autonomy, and within European power politics. Though it took a literal divorce to sever England from the Papacy, Dickens argues that the prior groundwork laid down by the Lollards, though not sufficient to launch a reformation, softened the ground to absorb Reformation ideas. The classic work is The English Reformation, by A.G. It did, however, have its own internal political dynamics. However, its development on the British Isles and Continental Europe shared similar intellectual roots, and the English Reformers were no doubt directly influenced by events in Europe. The English Reformation deserves its own place in Reformation historiography, as it developed differently from its Continental counterpart.
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