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Book: Spectres of John Ball

Chapter: Ball and the English Reformation

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.42751

Blurb:

This chapter looks at how and why Ball became a convenient foil for debates around rebellion, national security, Catholicism, and the perceived extremities of Protestantism in the sixteenth century. This also includes discussion of a tradition of Ball as a proto-Protestant martyr which needed to be presented with great care.

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