Jeremy J. Smith is Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (Cambridge, 2020) and The Victorian Reinvention of Medieval Liturgy (with David Jasper, Boydell and Brewer, 2023). Lexicons of English Religion 1380-1850 received funding from the Leverhulme Trust.

'Combining fascinating analyses of the words used by this person, in this place, at this time with the latest methods in corpus linguistics, this book is for everyone who cares about how we study the English of the past.' Wendy Scase, Emeritus Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Birmingham

• 1. Introduction; 2. 'Smelling lollers in the wind': the premature reformation of the late fourteenth century; 3. Reformation: true witnesses and godly joy; 4. Radical religion: from Martin Marprelate to the Putney Debates; 5. Enthusiasm and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century; 6. 'The new strange notion': lexicons of Romantic religion; 7. Future directions.

Jeremy J. Smith is Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (Cambridge, 2020) and The Victorian Reinvention of Medieval Liturgy (with David Jasper, Boydell and Brewer, 2023). Lexicons of English Religion 1380-1850 received funding from the Leverhulme Trust.

'Combining fascinating analyses of the words used by this person, in this place, at this time with the latest methods in corpus linguistics, this book is for everyone who cares about how we study the English of the past.' Wendy Scase, Emeritus Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Birmingham

• 1. Introduction; 2. 'Smelling lollers in the wind': the premature reformation of the late fourteenth century; 3. Reformation: true witnesses and godly joy; 4. Radical religion: from Martin Marprelate to the Putney Debates; 5. Enthusiasm and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century; 6. 'The new strange notion': lexicons of Romantic religion; 7. Future directions.

Jeremy J. Smith is Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (Cambridge, 2020) and The Victorian Reinvention of Medieval Liturgy (with David Jasper, Boydell and Brewer, 2023). Lexicons of English Religion 1380-1850 received funding from the Leverhulme Trust.

'Combining fascinating analyses of the words used by this person, in this place, at this time with the latest methods in corpus linguistics, this book is for everyone who cares about how we study the English of the past.' Wendy Scase, Emeritus Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Birmingham

• 1. Introduction; 2. 'Smelling lollers in the wind': the premature reformation of the late fourteenth century; 3. Reformation: true witnesses and godly joy; 4. Radical religion: from Martin Marprelate to the Putney Debates; 5. Enthusiasm and enlightenment in the long eighteenth century; 6. 'The new strange notion': lexicons of Romantic religion; 7. Future directions.