The British theologian and church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch is an internationally respected expert on the Reformation period. In his keynote address, he emphasizes that in his research he was always surprised by how changeable Christianity proved to be through the millennia. His approach is so significant because he understands the history of the Reformation between 1490 and 1700 not as a national, but as a polycentric, cross-denominational process in early modern Europe.

The Samurai and the cross. The Jesuit enterprise in early modern Japan. By M. Antoni J. Ucerler sj. Pp. xviii + 445 incl. 70 ills. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. £25.99. 978 0 19 533543 9 - Volume 74 Issue 2

Places of worship in Britain and Ireland, 1550–1689. Edited by P. S. Barnwell and Trevor Cooper. (Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment, 10.) Pp. vi + 234 incl. 66 colour and black-and-white ills. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. £45. 978 1 907730 80 1 - Volume 72 Issue 2

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The Tudor occupation of Boulogne. Conquest, colonization and imperial monarchy, 1544–1550. By Neil Murphy. Pp. xviii + 296 incl. 4 figs and 1 map. Cambridge–New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. £75. 978 1 108 47201 2 - Volume 71 Issue 2

This chapter looks at the minds of the first two presidents of Corpus Christi College, John Claymond and Robert Morwent, speculating on what might have been their most worrying moments. For Claymond, it is the death of Richard Fox in 1528, which brought the greatest predator of the decade into an uncomfortably intimate relationship with the College, because Fox’s successor at Winchester was none other than Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Indeed, the two or three years after 1528 would have remained anxious for Claymond. The chapter next looks into the mind of President Morwent, and shows how another perilous moment would have arrived in 1538. By 1538, Cardinal Reginald Pole headed King’s Henry’s list of people who required murdering. It was amid the political turmoil of this debacle that Archbishop Thomas Cranmer let Thomas Cromwell know of dangerously papalist sentiments currently being expressed among the Corpus Fellowship. In the end, Corpus sneaked past this crisis too.