The call for reform -- The king in his youth -- The great cardinal -- Wolsey: ascendancy and decline -- Divorce and confusion -- The battle for control -- The age of reform -- The royal supremacy -- Consolidation and commonwealth -- The end of the monasteries -- The first crisis of the reformation -- Cromwell's rule and end -- The rule of King Henry -- The crisis of reform -- The Seymour ascendancy -- The Protestant reformation -- Counter-reformation and reform.