Patrick Collinson, who died in 2011, was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and the author of many books on the English Reformation, including The Elizabethan Puritan Movement and The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625.
Henry VIII’s jurisidictional quarrel with the Papacy was not resolved, and its consequences are with us still. In Henry’s eyes the dispute was one of authority, not doctrine, but...
If the directions taken by historical research are indicative of a nation’s broader preoccupations, then we may have to prepare ourselves for a religious revival of some magnitude....
The publication of Patrick Collinson’s The Religion of Protestants is a stirring event in the rediscovery of Early Modern England. Unmistakably the work of a historian who has reflected on...
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