Erroneous and Schismatical Opinions: The Question of Orthodoxy regarding the Theology of Hanserd Knollys (ca. 1599-1691). Barry H. Howson
from his cases. He can with conviction assail the Puritan divines who in their polemical tracts simplified ordinary parishioners and presented straw men — worldlings and ungodly characters unmoved by the Pauline message. And he can also embrace in this critique modern historians, especially Christopher Haigh, who imply that this was what English parishioners were really like. There is in this volume the germ of an alternative interpretation of local sources, based upon the role of the "middling sort" as brokers: it may now need some greater analytical boldness to develop and model these localist insights. FELICITY HEAL Jesus College, University of Oxford