Reformed Government Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiatical Politics in Late Elizabethan England

Polly Ha, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Duke Divinity School, USA

Polly Ha is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at Duke Divinity School, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the author of English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640 (Stanford University Press, 2011), chief editor of The Puritans
on Independence (Oxford University Press, 2017), and co-editor of The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2011). She formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Southern California, and East Anglia, and has held Research Fellowships at the British Academy,
The University of Cambridge, the American Antiquarian Society, The Huntington Library, and the Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin.

Jonathan D. Moore holds a PhD in historical theology and ecclesiastical history from the University of Cambridge and is the author of English Hypothetical Universalism (Eerdmans, 2007) and assistant editor of The Puritans on Independence (Oxford University Press). He is currently an Honorary
Research Fellow of the University of East Anglia, and an Adjunct Lecturer & Research Associate at Union Theological College, Belfast.

Edda Frankot is Associate Professor at Nord University in Norway. She has been involved in several editing projects including the 1641 Depositions project (1641.tcd.ie) and Aberdeen Registers Online. She is the author of Medieval Maritime Law in Urban Northern Europe (EUP, 2012) and
Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands (Palgrave Pivot, 2021), assistant editor of The Puritans on Independence (Oxford University Press, 2017), and co-editor of Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe: Scotland and its Neighbours, c. 1350- c. 1650 (Routledge, 2020).

Introductory Chapters
1. Rewriting the Elizabethan Civil Wars of Religion
2. Permissible Change: Richard Hooker, Machiavelli, and the 'Reformed Government'
3. Leveraging Historical Contingency: Christian Antiquity and Late Elizabethan Society
4. Reformed Monarchical Republicanism: A Scribal Reconstruction
5. The 'Reformed Government'
6. Reader Guide
Reformed Government
Preface to the Christian Reader
1. That the churchgovernment desired is the true, antient, primitive, catholick, & Apostolicall
2. Concerning the Circumstances of the Churchgovernment: and how it may stande united with the Civil governement and pollicy off this Kingdome with conveniency, and without any great alteration
3. That the Reformed Churchgovernment desyred, is farre from a Tyranny
4. That the Churchgovernment desired is possible
5. Of perpetuity of the desired Churchgovernment
The Conclusion to the Reader