England’s Long Reformation: 1500-1800
TYACKE, Nicholas (editor). 2003 Challenges the notion that the Reformation was purely a 16th-century phenomenon and takes a broader look at “the making of a Protestant nation” over three centuries.
Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England.
TODD, Margot (editor). 1995 An introduction to the historiographical debates about politics and religion in early modern England.
Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England
THOMSON, Andrew. 2022 A survey of three dioceses across the course of the seventeenth century, covering such issues as attendance at court, completion of business and the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. This study challenges orthodox perceptions of excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues […]
Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe.
TARANTINO, Giovanni, and Charles Zika (editors). 2019 A study of the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe.
Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England.
SKUSE, Alanna 2021 Skuse explores early modern attitudes towards the altered body, from mastectomy to castration and amputation to facial reconstruction.
Finding the Witch’s Mark: Female Participation in the Judicial System During the Hopkins Trials 1645-47
LUNDQUIST, Shannon M. 2014 Women’s role in the witch hunts of early modern Europe. Contributing factors, common accusations, methods of identifying witches, etc.
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England.
MALTBY, Judith. 2000 Maltby focuses on “prayer book Protestants”, that is, those who, out of personal conviction, conformed to the Church of England up to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Female Servants in Early Modern England.
MANSELL, Charmian 2024 Mansell draws on over 1000 testimonies drawn from English church court records of the experiences of women in domestic service between 1532 and 1649.
Elizabethan Controversialists.
MILWARD, Peter. 2022 This work is, in effect, Peter Milward’s guided tour of his survey, Religious controversies of the Elizabethan age. Published posthumously.
Martyrdom and Literature in Early Modern England.
MONTA, Susannah Brietz. 2005 A study of the representation of Protestant and Catholic martyrs during the Reformation, illustrating the competing discourses of martyrdom, exploring a wide range of sources, many of which were popular in their day, but have since fallen into neglect and obscurity.