Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture

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Introduction David Loewenstein and John Marshall
1. Writing and the persecution of heretics in Henry VIII's England: The Examinations of Anne Askew David Loewenstein
2. Anabaptism and anti-Anabaptism in the early English Reformation: defining Protestant heresy and orthodoxy during the reign of Edward VI Carrie Euler
3. 'Godlie matrons' and 'loose-bodied dames': heresy and gender in the Family of Love Christopher Marsh
4. Puritanism, familism, and heresy in Early Stuart England: the case of John Etherington revisited Peter Lake
5. A ticklish business: defining heresy and orthodoxy in the Puritan Revolution John Coffey
6. Thomas Edwards's Gangraena and heresiological traditions Ann Hughes
7. 'And if God was one of us': Paul Best, John Biddle, and anti-Trinitarian heresy in seventeenth-century England Nigel Smith
8. The road to George Hill: the heretical dynamic of Winstanley's early prose Thomas N. Corns
9. Milton and the heretical priesthood of Christ John Rogers
10. An Historical Narration Concerning Heresie: Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Barlow and the Restoration debate over 'heresy' J. A. I. Champion
11. Defining and redefining heresy up to Locke's Letters Concerning Toleration John Marshall
12. 'Take heed of being too forward in imposing on others': orthodoxy and heresy in the Baxterian tradition N. H. Keeble
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