Books on “The Marprelate Controversy” and Elizabethan Puritanism
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The only seriously edited edition of the Marprelate pamphlets in the last hundred years appears to be -
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition, edited by Joseph L. Black (2008). There are some copies on Amazon for about $50, presently, and there are about 246 libraries that hold this book worldwide.
This book has all the tracts of the controversy on the Marprelate side. It looks like the establishment side’s books are more difficult to find. I try not to use or count fly-by-night copyright-free press editions. I don’t trust them and don’t patronize them. (I’m finding that AbeBooks has books that are unavailable on Amazon.)
Here are the tracts it contains -
The Epistle (1588)
The Epitome (1588)
Certain Mineral & Metaphysical School-Points (1589)
Hay Any Work for Cooper (1589)
Theses Martinianae (1589)
The Just Censure of Martin Junior by Martin Senior (1589)
The Protestation of Martin Mar prelate (1589)
Another work, ‘More Work for Cooper,’ apparently was never published because the press was seized by the authorities at that time.
A response to the pamphlets was published by Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Winchester, called, ‘An Admonition to the People of England.’ I haven’t found copies of this one anywhere. It was described as ‘long and dull,’ so it seems it was unimportant.
Two other anti-Marprelate pamphlets were also published - in the Marprelate irreverent style. These were -
Pap with an Hatchet or Pappe with an Hatchet, by Lyle (1589), available from a University of Manchester Press edition (with annotations and an introduction) and,
An Almond for a Parrat (1590), which doesn’t seem to have an available edition.
I did find books on the Elizabethan Puritans, mainly by Patrick Collinson. He’s a fairly prolific author on the Reformation, the Elizabethan era, and Elizabethan Puritanism and anti-Puritanism. He may be a good historian to tap into when we get to the Elizabethan era.
Here are 2 titles that seem promising -
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1990), and,
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) (2013).
If anyone has read any Patrick Collinson, share with us your thoughts, if you wish.
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition, edited by Joseph L. Black (2008). There are some copies on Amazon for about $50, presently, and there are about 246 libraries that hold this book worldwide.
This book has all the tracts of the controversy on the Marprelate side. It looks like the establishment side’s books are more difficult to find. I try not to use or count fly-by-night copyright-free press editions. I don’t trust them and don’t patronize them. (I’m finding that AbeBooks has books that are unavailable on Amazon.)
Here are the tracts it contains -
The Epistle (1588)
The Epitome (1588)
Certain Mineral & Metaphysical School-Points (1589)
Hay Any Work for Cooper (1589)
Theses Martinianae (1589)
The Just Censure of Martin Junior by Martin Senior (1589)
The Protestation of Martin Mar prelate (1589)
Another work, ‘More Work for Cooper,’ apparently was never published because the press was seized by the authorities at that time.
A response to the pamphlets was published by Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Winchester, called, ‘An Admonition to the People of England.’ I haven’t found copies of this one anywhere. It was described as ‘long and dull,’ so it seems it was unimportant.
Two other anti-Marprelate pamphlets were also published - in the Marprelate irreverent style. These were -
Pap with an Hatchet or Pappe with an Hatchet, by Lyle (1589), available from a University of Manchester Press edition (with annotations and an introduction) and,
An Almond for a Parrat (1590), which doesn’t seem to have an available edition.
I did find books on the Elizabethan Puritans, mainly by Patrick Collinson. He’s a fairly prolific author on the Reformation, the Elizabethan era, and Elizabethan Puritanism and anti-Puritanism. He may be a good historian to tap into when we get to the Elizabethan era.
Here are 2 titles that seem promising -
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1990), and,
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) (2013).
If anyone has read any Patrick Collinson, share with us your thoughts, if you wish.
