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About the author
Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, USA. From 1993-2009 he was Professor of History at Princeton University, USA. He is the author of many books including The Boxmaker's Revenge and a forthcoming volume on Shakespeare's history plays.
Michael Questier is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. He is the author of Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England (CUP), Conversion, Politics and Religion in England 1580-1625 (CUP), and co-authored with Peter Lake The Antichrist's Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in Post-Reformation England (Yale).
Summary
New biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and controversial story of her demise.
Foreword
New biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and controversial story of her demise.
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Here [the authors] have produced a fluent text which shows no signs of its double authorship, reading as if by a single pair of hands... What [they] very successfully do is to place the case of Margaret Clitherow within the context of recent research and consequent historical debate about the identity and evolution of Early Modern Catholicism in the peculiar circumstances of an England only uncertainly becoming 'Protestant'.
