Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England / by Stillman, Robert E., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Four Enacting the Politics of Christendom: After the ScottishMission (1590), James VI and I -- Part 3 Poetry Turning from the Confessions Sidney, Constable, and Lanyer -- Chapter Five Poetic Energy and Poetic Economy in the Post-Reformation -- Chapter Six Examining Constable's Sonnets, or The Pleasures of Pious Miscegenation -- Chapter Seven Reading the Critical Conversation about Aemilia Lanyer: Performing Presence in the Confessional Beyond -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Political and religious practice in the early modern British world /

Table of Contents: “…John Hacket's Scrinia Reserata and the oral history of early Stuart England -- 'Man of moderation': the Restoration bishop of Norwich -- Hoadly the high and Sacheverell the low: religious and political celebrity in post-revolutionary England -- Part II: British, European, and Atlantic dimensions -- The Nine Years' War in Ireland (1594-1603) as problem of government -- Luisa de Carvajal, her 'Life', and the place of women in Counter-Reformation politics -- Of gods and beasts: the many bodies of James VI and I.…”
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Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England : essays presented to G.E. Aylmer /

Table of Contents: “…Gerald Aylmer at Balliol / Christopher Hill -- Gerald Aylmer in Manchester and York / Gordon Leff -- Gerald Aylmer as a scholar / Austin Woolrych -- Cases of conscience in seventeenth-century England / Keith Thomas -- Public duty, conscience, and women in early modern England / Patricia Crawford -- Private conscience and public duty in the writings of James VI and I / Kevin Sharpe -- Divine rights in the early seventeenth century / Conrad Russell -- The conflicting loyalties of a v̀ulger counselor' : the Third Earl of Southampton, 1597-1624 / Neil Cuddy -- The public conscience of Henry Sherfield / Paul Slack -- William Dowsing, the bureaucratic Puritan / John Morrill -- A man of conscience in seventeenth-century urban politics : Alderman Hoyle of York / Claire Cross --…”