Until now, we have lacked an authoritative study of Cambridge divinity in the half-century leading up to the English Civil War. David Hoyle's fine monograph answers that need. [...] While the book never loses sight of the big picture, it also illuminates the individual profi les of its remarkable cast of characters, from Peter Baro and John Cosin to William Perkins and Samuel Ward. It is required reading for historians of the early Stuart church.

• IntroductionLife and Religion in Late Tudor CambridgeCambridge and the Boundaries of ConformityBarrett, Baro and the Foundations of the FaithAssurance and Anxiety 1595-1619The Seeds of Contention 1619-1629`Near Popery and yet no Popery'`Who Changed Religion into Rebellion?'AppendixBibliographyIndex

Until now, we have lacked an authoritative study of Cambridge divinity in the half-century leading up to the English Civil War. David Hoyle's fine monograph answers that need. [...] While the book never loses sight of the big picture, it also illuminates the individual profi les of its remarkable cast of characters, from Peter Baro and John Cosin to William Perkins and Samuel Ward. It is required reading for historians of the early Stuart church.

• IntroductionLife and Religion in Late Tudor CambridgeCambridge and the Boundaries of ConformityBarrett, Baro and the Foundations of the FaithAssurance and Anxiety 1595-1619The Seeds of Contention 1619-1629`Near Popery and yet no Popery'`Who Changed Religion into Rebellion?'AppendixBibliographyIndex

Until now, we have lacked an authoritative study of Cambridge divinity in the half-century leading up to the English Civil War. David Hoyle's fine monograph answers that need. [...] While the book never loses sight of the big picture, it also illuminates the individual profi les of its remarkable cast of characters, from Peter Baro and John Cosin to William Perkins and Samuel Ward. It is required reading for historians of the early Stuart church.

• IntroductionLife and Religion in Late Tudor CambridgeCambridge and the Boundaries of ConformityBarrett, Baro and the Foundations of the FaithAssurance and Anxiety 1595-1619The Seeds of Contention 1619-1629`Near Popery and yet no Popery'`Who Changed Religion into Rebellion?'AppendixBibliographyIndex