"One of the most important books on the Elizabethan church ever written.....I recommend this book very highly."--Susan Wabuda, Fordham University

"Marshalling an impressive array of sources, the author strives to sketch the way things actually were in the English Church under Elizabeth I and James I."--Southwestern Journal of Theology

"This is a book that no scholar who is interested in its subject can afford to miss."--Church Times

"Professor Collinson's ability to enter into the consciousness of Elizabethan and jacobean clergymen, his vast learning, his deep humanity, his scrupulous fairness...his courtesy to those with whom he disagrees--in all these he is a model."--Times Literary Supplement

"A stirring event in the rediscovery of Early Modern England. Unmistakably the work of a historian who has reflected on his subject for the better part of a working lifetime."--London Review of Books