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Church and People, 1450–1660. By C. Cross. Fontana Library of English History. London: Fontana/Collins, 1976. Pp. 272. £1.50. - Church and Society in England: Henry VIII to James I. By F. Heal and R. O'Day (eds.). London: Macmillan, 1977. Pp. 206. Hardback £5.95; paperback £2.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Margaret Bowker
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University of Lancaster

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1 Note particularly Schofield, R. S., ‘The measurement of literacy in pre-industrial England’ in Goody, J. (ed.), ‘Literacy in traditional societies’ (Cambridge, 1968), pp. 311–25Google Scholar; Spufford, Margaret, Contrasting communities, English villagers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cressy, D., ‘Literacy in pre-industrial England’, Societas, IV (1974), 229–40Google Scholar. Since Dr Cross's book went to press, there have been further important investigations of this theme, among them Cressy, D., ‘Levels of illiteracy in England 1530–1730’, Historical Journal, XX, 1 (1977), 123CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, Educational opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England’, History of Education Quarterly, XVI, 3 (1976), 301–20.Google Scholar

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