Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University
Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London

Preface: Ann Hughes as historian, friend and mentor - Peter Lake
Introduction: rethinking public politics in the English Revolution - Peter Lake and Jason Peacey
1 'Great conformitants' and 'right ambidexters': puritans, conformity and the challenge of Laudianism - Anthony Milton
2 Killing (Catholic) officers no crime? The politics of religious violence in England in 1640 - John Walter
3 Anatomy of the General Rising: militancy and mobilisation in London, 1643 - David Como
4 'In the hollow of his wooden leg': the transmission of civil war materials, 1642-9 - Karen Britland
5 Puritanism, parish and polemic in civil war London: the case of Thomas Bakewell - Elliot Vernon
6 William Walwyn's Montaigne and the struggle for toleration in the English Revolution - David Loewenstein
7 An accursed family: the Scottish crisis and the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650-2 - Thomas Cogswell
8 Indemnity, sovereignty and justice in the army debates of 1647 - Sean Kelsey
9 Milton and Winstanley: a conversation - Thomas N. Corns
10 Women, print and locality: Richard Culmer and the practices of polemic during the English Revolution - Jason Peacey
11 'Threshing among the people': Ranters, Quakers and the revolutionary public sphere - Kate Peters
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