‘…all Altars [should] be taken down and clear removed even unto the foundation’: Edmund Grindal. Social and political doublethink in the Puritan movement by Craig Paterson

The purpose of this article is to consider the English Reformation, particularly within the late sixteenth century, from an interdisciplinary perspective. By considering the two seemingly unrelated artefacts of the instructions laid out by one zealous Protestant reformer and the effigy of another, I will discuss the apparent hypocrisies and contradictions of the Reformation which present themselves here.