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Patrick Collinson

  • Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart

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Patrick Collinson succeeded Sir Geoffrey Elton, Thomas Cromwell redivivus, as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. His most recent book is From Cranmer to Sanford.

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