Shuger's study of Measure to Measure offers a sweeping reinterpretation of English political thought in the aftermath of the Reformation, one that focuses not on the tension between Crown and Parliament but on the relation of the sacred to the state.

Acknowledgements Introduction The Rebel Codpiece and the State Political Theology The Throne of God: Absolutism, Equity, and Christian Justice The King of Souls Notes Bibliography Index

DEBORA KULLER SHUGER is Professor of English at UCLA, California. She is the author of Sacred Rhetoric, Habits of Thought and The Renaissance Bible and co-editor, with Claire McEachern, of Religion and Culture in Renaissance England.