Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture (Paperback)

Introduction David Loewenstein and John Marshall; 1. Writing and the persecution of heretics in Henry VIII's England: The Examinations of Anne Askew David Loewenstein; 2. Anabaptism and anti-Anabaptism in the early English Reformation: defining Protestant heresy and orthodoxy during the reign of Edward VI Carrie Euler; 3. 'Godlie matrons' and 'loose-bodied dames': heresy and gender in the Family of Love Christopher Marsh; 4. Puritanism, familism, and heresy in Early Stuart England: the case of John Etherington revisited Peter Lake; 5. A ticklish business: defining heresy and orthodoxy in the Puritan Revolution John Coffey; 6. Thomas Edwards's Gangraena and heresiological traditions Ann Hughes; 7. 'And if God was one of us': Paul Best, John Biddle, and anti-Trinitarian heresy in seventeenth-century England Nigel Smith; 8. The road to George Hill: the heretical dynamic of Winstanley's early prose Thomas N. Corns; 9. Milton and the heretical priesthood of Christ John Rogers; 10. An Historical Narration Concerning Heresie: Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Barlow and the Restoration debate over 'heresy' J. A. I. Champion; 11. Defining and redefining heresy up to Locke's Letters Concerning Toleration John Marshall; 12. 'Take heed of being too forward in imposing on others': orthodoxy and heresy in the Baxterian tradition N. H. Keeble; Index.