There were over 1, 300 hospitals in medieval England, almost all of which were destroyed, with their records, at the Reformation.
The region is celebrating the LutherDecade, the 10-year count-down to 2017 and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
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What followed the Reformation was, actually, the Counter-Reformation, which used the same means i.e.
They added that in many places it was the first time that Christians had gathered together since the Reformation.
And good graft-free governance does not come from reforming the state alone - it demands the reformation of society and its people.
Take Wittenberg, a university town where Luther started the Reformation, and where Prince Hamlet, allegedly, studied with his chums Rosenkranz and Guildenstern.
In my novel "The Chalice, " I try to oblige by propelling the main character Joanna Stafford, a former Dominican novice through the Reformation-torn England of 1538.
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The Orthodox Church split with Rome 10 centuries ago and then the Protestants followed in the time of the Reformation in the 16th century.
So for Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford don who specialises in the Reformation, the challenge of chronicling Christian history in just over 1, 000 pages is manifold.
In the church in Stratford-upon-Avon where he is buried, the altar stone had been buried and hidden for safekeeping during the upheavals of the Reformation.
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That changed in the wake of the Reformation and the counter-Reformation.
Ms Friswell, who is also chairman of the Methodist Heritage Committee, said the case for the graveyard beneath Abbey Gardens is based on the reformation.
The Renaissance and the Reformation boosted mankind's intellectual and cultural self-confidence.
Yet neither tells us much about English society, the state of the country, or the progress of the Reformation, although Mr Wilson does briefly mention Ireland.
The Gospels were carried for 200 years around the region together with the body of St Cuthbert before reaching Durham in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.
Then, in 1994, he made history, he joined the elite of the Pope's closest advisers, Glasgow's first ever cardinal and only the third Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
Print made possible the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Yet his response to the abuse crisis, which was ultimately a severe crisis of authority, and arguably the greatest test of the Church's authority since the Reformation, was insufficient.
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Will local conservatism mix with the imported variety to forge a new style of Catholicism, girding for fresh battles with secularism and longing for a reversal of the Reformation?
They were carried 1, 000 miles around the region from Holy Island, with the body of St Cuthbert, for 200 years before reaching Durham Cathedral in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.
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The Gospels were carried 1, 000 miles around the region from Holy Island, with the body of St Cuthbert, for 200 years before reaching Durham Cathedral in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.
Shirky believes that we are on the crest of an ever-surging wave of democratized information: the Gutenberg printing press produced the Reformation, which produced the Scientific Revolution, which produced the Enlightenment, which produced the Internet, each move more liberating than the one before.
The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
Prior to being elevated to a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003, when he became only the third Scot to reach the rank since the Reformation, he had expressed his openness to a debate on issues like priestly celibacy, women priests and contraception within the church.
What is interesting is how the Craze seems to have followed the fault-lines of the Reformation: Catholic countries which had little major threat from Protestantism, such as Italy and Spain, saw very little witch-hunting while those in the front-line of the religious struggles of the time, like Germany and France, saw the most.
The largest reformation of the U.S. financial system since the 1930s has just been signed by President Obama.
Rather, it was the Protestant Reformation that halved the market for illuminated manuscripts, and, combined with the end of the reign of the dukes of Burgundy and the ascent of Spanish rulers in Flanders, disrupted the pan-European network of trade routes and patronage on which illumination depended.
Coal contains high amounts of acid producing sulphur that degrades and poisons the catalytic reformation beds used to form the syngas back into liquid fuels.
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