Explores the hitherto neglected relationship between the English Reformation and the Lutheran scholar Philip Melanchthon. This book looks at how Henry, following his break with Rome, filtered with Lutheranism as a doctrine to replace Catholicism, before the eventual collapse of the policy and its replacement with a more moderate reform programme. 'John Schofield makes a persuasive case for the influence of the German Lutheran thinker Philip Melanchthon on the English Reformation... The book is well written and compelling; never insistent, it makes its case by the slow accretion of details, saving its final revelation for the last page... the book is enjoyable, persuasive, and eminently readable...' Sixteenth Century Journal