Norm has published approximately forty-one scholarly articles and ten books including The Elizabethan World (2010) and The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation (2001), The Birth of the Elizabethan Age (1993), God and the Moneylenders (1989), and the prize-winning Faith by Statute (1982). The Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard Universities have awarded him grants and fellowships. In 2008-2009 he was a visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University.