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an important addition to the fast-growing field of early modern sermon studies ... [an] erudite, lucid, and important book. Katrin Ettenhuber, Notes and Queries systematic and illuminating ... This satisfying and carefully researched book is a model study of the intertwining of religion and politics in early modern London. Anthony Fletcher, History Politics and the Pauls Cross Sermons is an important addition to the fast-growing field of early modern sermon studies ... [This is an] erudite, lucid, and important book. Katrin Ettenhuber, Review of English Studies

Morrissey's achievement here is a substantial one ... Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons contributes to our understanding of much more than the sermons series itself. It also brings to life the great religious controversies of the age. ... In short, this really is a must-read book for anybody interested in the literary, religious, or political cultures of early modern England; in early modern sermons; or, indeed, early modern London. We can only wait with keen anticipation to see what else Morrisey's ongoing researches into this area will uncover. * Jonathan Willis, The Sixteenth Century Journal * Politics and the Pauls Cross Sermons is an important addition to the fast-growing field of early modern sermon studies ... [This is an] erudite, lucid, and important book. * Katrin Ettenhuber, Review of English Studies * systematic and illuminating ... This satisfying and carefully researched book is a model study of the intertwining of religion and politics in early modern London. * Anthony Fletcher, History * an important addition to the fast-growing field of early modern sermon studies ... [an] erudite, lucid, and important book. * Katrin Ettenhuber, Notes and Queries * [a] detailed and comprehensive account of Paul's Cross from mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century ... Morrissey's is a model of how such case studies should be carried out ... Morrissey's command of secondary literature is impeccable, her arguments compelling, and the wealth of evidence she marshals truly remarkable. Anyone interested not only in the rise and demise of Paul's Cross but also in the larger transformations in religious culture London and England underwent between the 1550s and the 1650s will have to turn to her excellent monograph. * Paulina Kewes, The Seventeenth Century * Every library should have a copy of this major contribution to our understanding of the early modern sermon. * Ian Green, English Historical Review * It is a rare tribute to say of a book derived from sermon transcripts that it is an absorbing read, Yet so it is with Mary Morrissey's Politics and the Paul's Cross Sermons 1558-1642. * Euan Cameron, Church Times *

Politics and the Pauls Cross Sermons is an important addition to the fast-growing field of early modern sermon studies ... [This is an] erudite, lucid, and important book. Katrin Ettenhuber, Review of English Studies

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Mary Morrissey studied English and History at Trinity College, Dublin before completing a PhD in English at the University of Cambridge. She has published articles on other aspects of early modern English religious culture, especially women's writing, and is currently editing John Donne's Civic Sermons for The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, gen. ed. Peter McCullough. She lectures on Renaissance Literature at the University of Reading.

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