Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500–1850: Essays in Honour of Peter Lake. Edited by David R. Como and MichaelQuestier. Boydell & Brewer, 2025, xiv + 416 pp. £110.

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Religious politics in post-Reformation England. Essays in honour of Nicholas Tyacke. Edited by Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake. (Studies in Modern British Religious History, 13.) Pp. xiv+253 incl. frontispiece. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006. £55. 1 84383 253 4 - Volume 59 Issue 1

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Reviewed by: Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday ed. by Konrad Eisenbichler Susan Mobley Collaboration, Conflict, and Continuity in the Reformation: Essays in Honour of James M. Estes on His Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2014. 430 pp. This book contains a collection of seventeen essays, two personal reflections and an extensive introduction by the editor, arranged into six sections. The introduction opens with a personal reflection on the author’s friendship with James Estes, gives some background for the origins for this Festschrift, and concludes with a detailed summary of the essays included. The second section, entitled “Friendship and Collaboration,” contains five essays. Heinz Scheible and Timothy Wengert both examine the relationship between Brenz and Melanchthon. Scheible argues that the vicissitudes in their relationship impacted their theological understandings, while Wengert argues that despite their differences Brenz and Melanchthon maintained “a working relationship that resulted in some of the most enduring documents of the Reformation” (104). Three essays address Erasmus from various perspectives. Valentina Sebastiani gives fascinating insights into the sixteenth-century world of publishing by examining the relationship between Erasmus and his publisher, and illustrating the contemporary acknowledgment that “publication had the power to grant perpetual fame” (115). Susan Karant-Nunn focuses on Erasmus’ determination “to pursue his scholarly interests unfettered by obligations imposed by fixed positions or by elevated patrons” while still remaining true to his intellectual principles (125, 142). Erika Rummel’s essay focuses on an exchange of letters between Erasmus and Wolfgang Capito in 1535 and includes the translation of five letters from Capito that have never been published in English. The third section, “Reforming the People and the Church,” includes five articles that address the challenges of creating confessional churches in various parts of Europe. Hermann Ehmer presents a succinct survey of Württemberg church history, and while the general reader will find it interesting to see how the Reformation endured through Napoleon and the Nazis, the [End Page 359] specialist would appreciate an expanded discussion of Brenz’s role in the Reformation’s lasting influence in Württemberg. Raymond Mentzer examines the problems of reorganizing the Reformed pastorate in France by focusing on a few specific examples, an interesting counterpoint to the German context. Silvana Seidel Menchi examines the successful publication history of a particular pamphlet on Christian piety between 1525 and 1556 to illustrate how the ideas of the Reformation were received in Italy: five of the pamphlet’s eight editions listed Erasmus as the author even though most of its contents were actually drawn straight from Luther. Thomas Deutscher explores further the influence of the Reformation by examining in detail several sermon books used by priests in northern Italy. The next section, “The Polemics of the Reformation,” contains three articles. Scott Hendrix presents a brief overview of the debate over free will between Luther and Erasmus, arguing that while modern scholarship has emphasized the importance of this debate, “the controversy itself had little impact on their lives or on the Reformation” (270). Amy Nelson Burnett focuses on an often-overlooked part of the Sacramentarian controversy, and, based upon a close reading of the primary sources, points out striking similarities in the exegesis of Erasmus and the Swiss theologians, Konrad Pelikan and Leo Jud. Robert Kolb examines the “imaginative and creative adaptation” of Luther’s thought by his students and followers and how it was implemented in order to develop a Lutheran church (316). The fifth section, “Catholic Opponents of Erasmus and Luther,” includes three articles that address Catholic responses to reform ideas. Mark Crane examines the early Catholic response to Luther in France by theologians from the University of Paris. Crane argues that by utilizing print “these theologians were tacitly acknowledging that religious matters belonged, in some way, to the realm of public discourse opened up by the printing press” and that to combat heresy effectively they had to engage that medium (346). Paul Grendler evaluates Jesuit attitudes toward Erasmus, finding that while initially many Jesuit educators insisted upon the value of his [End Page 360] works, ultimately the Society of Jesus...

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Journal Article Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, and Peter Lake, editors. Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 304. $60.00 Get access Cogswell Thomas, Cust Richard, and Lake Peter, editors. Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 304. $60.00. Tim Harris Tim Harris Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 5, December 2003, Pages 1519–1520, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.5.1519 Published: 01 December 2003

Reviewed by: Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England—Essays in Honour of Professor W. J. Sheils ed. by Nadine Lewycky and Adam Morton Michael Questier Getting Along? Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England—Essays in Honour of Professor W. J. Sheils. Edited by Nadine Lewycky and Adam Morton. [St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2012. Pp. xiii, 250. $124.95. ISBN 978-1-4094-0089-9.) Quite unusually for a Festschrift, this set of essays really has something to do with the body of work of the person whose career is being celebrated. William Sheils, in the later part of his œuvre, was noted in particular for probing, as he put it, the “ecumenicity of the everyday.” Most of these pieces look at aspects of where the everyday took precedence over and trumped the polemical divisions which defined post–Reformation English politics. This, of course, has been a topic of some significance in recent times because of some scholars’ continuing interest in how one narrates the rise of a tolerant mind-set, i.e., as the state became less inclined to persecute people for their religious beliefs. It is certainly possible to show that successive regimes in this period frequently did not go after people purely because they held this or that view about doctrine. So the capacity for people to “get along” should not actually be all that surprising; except, of course, that there were so many occasions when they did not. [End Page 364] So thoughtful, and really very accomplished, is the introduction (forcefully reminding the reader how recent postgraduates still are the future of the profession) and so well assembled are the essays that it is difficult in the space of a short review to do justice to them all. Alexandra Walsham reprises the literature of practical tolerance among the godly. The claim is that reformed/evangelical Protestantism in this period had a considerable capacity for socialization. There is a sense that, all the way through the period, with a theological and ecclesiological arm, Starbucks could have done well even in the godlier parts of country. Peter Marshall produces a cutting-edge essay on one of the more problematical issues of the period, the question of how Catholics who were urged to separate themselves from their local parish and all its ungodliness could end up in the churchyard even while the parochial authorities sometimes tried to keep them out. Robert Swanson’s “Fissures in the Bedrock” looks at how far the more confessionally explicit difficulties after the Reformation had their analogues in the period before it—a useful reminder for historians of the Reformation who tend to think that the world starts in 1558 or 1533. Emma Watson has a chapter on the continuing efficiency of the church courts and concludes that “both before and after the Reformation, clergymen were accountable to their congregations” (pp. 113–14). The source base for the essay reminds us that there is so much more mileage for PhD students in the under-used church court records of this period. Andrew Cambers has a brilliant piece on the circulation of libels in Northampton, a worthy addition to the trail blazed in the recent past by Alastair Bellany. This refers back also to Sheils’s work on Northamptonshire Puritanism—one bookend of his career, as it were. The article is in fact about the two libels that John Lambe denounced in Star Chamber in 1607 as part of a conformist attempt to “out” Northamptonshire Puritans and is really interesting, because it reveals a coterie of conformists and future Laudians there; this is, of course, slightly against the grain of the volume, as these people were definitely not getting along. Rosamund Oates’s contribution reviews the Challenge controversy and says, basically, that polemicists could not do anything to (re)confessionalize the calendar. Peter Lake weighs in with a typically nuanced reading of the play Sir John Oldcastle. Part of his recent long-term project is to work out the historical context for what London theatergoers were watching in the late-Elizabethan period. This play reverses the tropes and assumptions of Shakespeare’s...

Reviews of Books:Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust, Peter Lake

<i>Religious Politics in Post‐Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke</i> ‐ Edited by Peter Lake and Kenneth Fincham

Revisionism and its legacies: the work of Conrad Russell Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake Part I. Politics: 1. Puritan politicians and King James VI and I, 1587-1604 Nicholas Tyacke 2. The sacred, the profane and the Union: politics of sermon and masque at the court wedding of Lord and Lady Hay Lori Anne Ferrell 3. Capital life: Members of Parliament outside the House Pauline Croft 4. The personal rule of James I, 1611-20 Andrew Thrush 5. Profiting from misfortune: corruption and the Admiralty under the early Stuarts David D. Hebb 6. Negotiating grace Cynthia Herrup Part II. Religion: 7. The pastoral tightrope: a Puritan pedagogue in Jacobean London Julia F. Merritt 8. The creation of Laudianism: a new approach Anthony Milton 9. Provincial preaching and allegiance in the first English Civil War Jacqueline Eales Part III. Popularity: 10. The people's love: the Duke of Buckingham and popularity Thomas Cogswell 11. Charles I and popularity Richard Cust 12. Puritans, popularity and petitions: local politics in national context: Cheshire 1641 Peter Lake A bibliography of the principal published writings of Conrad Russell, 1962-2002 Richard Cust and Elizabeth Russell.

<i>Politics, religion and popularity in early Stuart Britain. Essays in honour of Conrad Russell</i>. Edited by Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake. Pp. x+304 incl. frontispiece and 1 ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £45. 0 521 80700 X

<i>Insolent Proceedings: Rethinking Public Politics in the English Revolution. Essays in Honour of Ann Hughes</i>, ed. Peter Lake and Jason Peacey

Refreshingly, Jeffrey S. Doty writes like an historian. In the tradition of Christopher Hill, Keith Thomas, and Keith Wrightson, he seeks to master complexities, rather than to exacerbate them through fashionably oblique postulation and self-regarding intricacies of hypostatization. His clean prose pursues with honest clarity the topics outlined in his title, Shakespeare, Popularity and the Public Sphere, to produce a slim, but learned, and perhaps seminal volume. Elizabeth I and James I, he reminds us, each remarked disconsolately that monarchy occupied a public stage, recognizing thereby the vulnerability of supreme power to assessment by the ogling multitude. ‘Public performance could win assent and adoration; publicity could also stain, degrade, and produce resistance’ (4). Officially, the commoners’ political role was reverential passivity; they were ‘things created’, in Coriolanus’ exasperated words (3.2.9–12), ‘to show bare heads, / In congregations, to yawn, be still, and wonder’ (169). Peter Lake and Steven Pincus have shown, however, that through the sixteenth century, elite incitements of commons support cumulatively created a post-Reformation public sphere, establishing the widespread recognition that authority might be buttressed by ‘popularity’ (The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, Manchester University Press, 2007). ‘Popularity’ remained nonetheless a dirty word, stigmatizing those who courted it illegitimately as pandering to the potential many-headed monster. Thus, whilst Elizabeth’s calculated showcasing of ‘love’ to her people on progresses comprised an unprecedented and successful stratagem, the Earl of Essex’s competitive street-wooings had him proclaimed in Star Chamber in 1601 ‘a popular traytor’ (16). The trick, for non-royal political actors, was to grasp the substance without incurring the stain. Prince Henry’s wiles in the Henry IV plays succeed here deftly: determinedly sullying himself at Eastcheap, his reformation upon accession glitters o’er his fault, to win him the popularity that he appears, falsely, not to have courted (74). It was Shakespeare’s prescient and timely achievement, argues Doty, to dramatize the political imperative of popularity for any regime: a phenomenon whose ubiquity today obscures recognition that ‘Shakespeare’s integration of publicity into political action has no precedent in early modern drama’ (3, 191).