New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures, the relationship of theology and secular ideologies, and the Civil War. Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of art and protestantism; the providentialist thinking of Charles I;the operation of the penal laws against Catholics; and protestantism in the localities of Yorkshire and Norwich. KENNETH FINCHAM is Reader in History at the University of Kent; Professor PETER LAKE teaches in the Department of History at Princeton University. Contributors: THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST, PATRICK COLLINSON, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER LAKE, SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE, DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, ANTHONY MILTON, PAUL SEAVER, WILLIAM SHEILS

Introduction - Peter LakeArt and Iconoclasm in Early Modern England - Keith ThomasThe Latitude of the Church of England - Diarmaid MacCullochJoan of Contention: The Myth of the Female Pope in Early Modern England - Thomas FreemanAnti-Puritanism: the Structure of a Prejudice - Peter LakeThe Fortunes of English Puritanism: an Elizabethan Perspective - Brett UsherWhat's in a Name? Dudley Fenner and the Peculiarities of Puritan Nomenclature - Patrick CollinsonPuritan Preachers and their Patrons - Paul S SeaverNew England's Reformation: `Wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of All People are upon Us' - Susan Hardman Moore`Anglicanism' by Stealth: the Career and Influence of John Overall - Anthony MiltonDestroyed for doing my Duty: Thomas Felton and the Penal Laws under Elizabeth and James I - Thomas CogswellCharles I and Providence - Richard P CustJohn Shawe and Edward Bowles: Civic Preachers at Peace and War - W J SheilsMaterial Evidence: The Religious Legacy of the Interregnum at St George Tombland, Norwich - Kenneth Fincham