Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Post-revisionism and the history of practices in the early modern British world -- Part I: Political and religious practices -- Stealing bibles in early modern London -- Printed English-language Bible concordances to c. 1640 and intentions for lay Bible use -- In the company of merchants: Edward Sherburne, the East India Company, and the transformation of Stuart political practices -- Consensual conflict in the early Stuart House of Commons
John Hacket's Scrinia Reserata and the oral history of early Stuart England -- 'Man of moderation': the Restoration bishop of Norwich -- Hoadly the high and Sacheverell the low: religious and political celebrity in post-revolutionary England -- Part II: British, European, and Atlantic dimensions -- The Nine Years' War in Ireland (1594-1603) as problem of government -- Luisa de Carvajal, her 'Life', and the place of women in Counter-Reformation politics -- Of gods and beasts: the many bodies of James VI and I
Empire of heresy: Samuel Gorton, Gerrard Winstanley, and the London roots of transatlantic revolutionary religion -- Index