Some of the sons and grandsons of the English Reformation, the ''hotter sort'', were known to their contemporaries as ''puritans'', but they called themselves ''the godly''. This career-spanning collection of essays by Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, deals with numerous aspects of the religious culture of post-Reformation England and its implications for the politics, mentality, and social relations of the Elizabethans and Jacobeans.
