By Patrick Collinson
Patrick Collinson is the major historian of English faith within the years after the Reformation. This choice of essays levels from Thomas Cranmer, who was once burnt on the stake after repeated recantations in 1556, to William Sancroft, the single different post-Reformation archbishop of Canterbury to were disadvantaged of workplace. Patrick Collinson's paintings explores the advanced interactions among the inclusive and particular trends in English Protestantism, focusing either on well-known figures, corresponding to John Foxe and Richard Hooker, and at the person reactions of lesser figures to the non secular demanding situations of the time. subject matters all through are the significance of the Bible and the emergence of Puritanism contained in the Church of England.
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