“...a hard core of Lollardist sympathy”
That’s the name! I’ve been trying to remember. I’d never really knew about that until I read the Mantel books. (In truth I might have heard of them years ago but who knows.)
Even though I am a Catholic I can’t disagree with what you say about the Reformation. It does seem that the countries that went Protestant were far more economically successful than the ones that stayed Catholic.
Eh, you can tell from my comments that I’m not expert on these subjects, although they are interesting to me. So, you know, I apologize for any stupidity I may evince here.
I guess Germany would be the place to look at. I remember my brother telling me years ago that Germany was not only divided east and west (as it was at that time) but also north and south, with the north Protestant and the south Catholic.
“It does seem that the countries that went Protestant were far more economically successful than the ones that stayed Catholic.”
Except for 16th century Spain which was the largest, richest and most powerful country in the world.