The first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640. The focus is on material reality and the real experience of actual believers, drawn from diaries and other direct testimonies. This book provides a comprehensive and incisive account of what it meant to lead a Protestant life in the century after the break with Rome ... Ryrie's work will certainly establish its position as a highly significant contribution to Reformation studies; this is a physically and intellectually substantial volume, constructed around a careful dialogue with a range of voices, which answers that critical question of how 'being Protestant' was a significant part of the making of the Reformation.