Rescuing the bishops
Blair Worden, 21 April 1983
The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625
by Patrick Collinson.
Oxford, 297 pp., £17.50, January 1983,0 19 822685 3 Show More
by Patrick Collinson.
Oxford, 297 pp., £17.50, January 1983,
Reactions to the English Civil War 1642-1649
by John Morrill.
Macmillan, 257 pp., £14, November 1982,0 333 27565 9 Show More
by John Morrill.
Macmillan, 257 pp., £14, November 1982,
The World of the Muggletonians
by Christopher Hill, Barry Reay and William Lamont.
Temple Smith, 195 pp., £12.50, February 1983,0 85117 226 1 Show More
by Christopher Hill, Barry Reay and William Lamont.
Temple Smith, 195 pp., £12.50, February 1983,
The Life of John Milton
by A.N. Wilson.
Oxford, 278 pp., £9.95, January 1983,0 19 211776 9 Show More
by A.N. Wilson.
Oxford, 278 pp., £9.95, January 1983,
Complete Prose Works of John Milton. Vol. 8: 1666-1682
edited by Maurice Kelley.
Yale, 625 pp., £55, January 1983,0 300 02561 0 Show More
edited by Maurice Kelley.
Yale, 625 pp., £55, January 1983,
The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Works of Andrew Marvell
by Warren Chernaik.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £19.50, February 1983,9780521247733 Show More
by Warren Chernaik.
Cambridge, 249 pp., £19.50, February 1983,
“... The publication of Patrick Collinson’s The Religion of Protestants is a stirring event in the rediscovery of Early Modern England. Unmistakably the work of a historian who has reflected on his subject for the better part of a working lifetime, the book consists of six wide-ranging essays which were originally delivered as the Ford Lectures when Professor Collinson visited Oxford in 1979, and which have now been revised, expanded and tightened – although the speculative tone of the lecture-hall has been appropriately retained ... ”
