Cross, Crown & Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England 1400-1800

Contents: Michael and Helen Pearson: Harry Leonard - a tribute - D. J. B. Trim/Peter J. Balderstone: Introduction: Church, state, society, and English culture in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries - Richard K. Emmerson: Visualising the Apocalypse in late medieval England: the York Minster Great East Window - D. J. B. Trim: "Knights of Christ"? Chivalric culture in England, c.1400-c.1550 - Ralph A. Houlbrooke: Magic and witchcraft in the diocese of Winchester, 1491-1570 - Robert Surridge: "An English Laodicea": the influence of Revelation 3:14-22 on mid-seventeenth-century England - William Lamont: The religious origins of the English Civil War: two false witnesses - Willy Maley: Divorced from reality or in the spirit of the letter? Manipulation and metaphor in Milton's "charitable" readings of Scripture - John F. Cox: Shakespeare reworked: Davenant's The Law Against Lovers and the cultural politics of the Restoration - Mary Trim: "Awe upon my heart": children of dissent, 1660-1688 - Keith A. Francis: "An Absurd, a Cruel, a Scandalous, and a Wicked [Bill]": the Church of England and the (Clandestine) Marriage Act of 1753 - Penny Mahon: Awakening the horror: Anna Letitia Barbauld and the anti-war movement in late eighteenth-century England.