An examination of the political, cultural and spiritual shock waves unleashed by the reformation and counter-reformation.

David R. Como is a professor of early modern history at Stanford University.
Michael Questier is Honorary Chair, Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology, Durham University, UK.

Introduction
David Como and Michael Questier
Part I: Reformation, Rivalry and Remembrance
1. The Victorian Invention of Anglicanism and its Reception - Lori Anne Ferrell
2. The Casket Letters: Controversy and Conspiracy- Simon Adams
3. The Battle of Adderley Aisle and Family Chapels in Post-Reformation England - Richard Cust
Part II - Catholics, Puritans and Conformists
4. 'Trapped in the Mental World of Robert Parsons': Religious Politics, Blame and the Essex Rising of 1601 - Paul E. J. Hammer
5. The Strange Case of the Boy of Bilson: Catholics, Puritans, Exorcists and Politics in Post-Reformation England - Michael Questier
6. Bishop Lewes Bayly - Prelate as Puritan? - Kenneth Fincham
7. Growing Opposition? Puritan Cheshire in Laudian London: the Diary of Samuel Torshell 1638-1639 - Anthony Milton
PART III - Publics and the Drama of Politics in the Post-Reformation
8. Weighed in a Balance: Strategizing Public Politics in Anglo-Dutch Affairs, 1617-1619 - Jason Peacey
9. At the Heart of a Knot of Villainy: Dr Lambe and the Purbeck Affair- Thomas Cogswell
10. The Literary Lake - Nigel Smith
Part IV - Structures of Post-Revolutionary Politics
11. The Nature of 'the Powers that Be': Politico-Religious Thought 1637-1653 and its Antecedents - Nicholas Tyacke
12. 'Yet God is Good to Israel': Nehemiah Wallington Reads (and Writes) the News - Ann Hughes
13. John Lilburne, the People and the English Revolution - Michael Braddick
14. Revisionism, Partisanship and the Structure of Early Modern British Imperial Culture - Steve Pincus
Bibliography of Peter Lake's Works
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria