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Description for John Knox
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; BGX; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and colleague Christopher Goodman, Dawson's biography challenges the traditionally held stereotype of this founder of the Presbyterian denomination as a strident and misogynist religious reformer whose influence rarely extended beyond Scotland. She maintains instead that John Knox relied heavily on the support of his godly sisters and conferred as well as argued with Mary, Queen of Scots. He was a proud member ... Read more
Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and colleague Christopher Goodman, Dawson's biography challenges the traditionally held stereotype of this founder of the Presbyterian denomination as a strident and misogynist religious reformer whose influence rarely extended beyond Scotland. She maintains instead that John Knox relied heavily on the support of his godly sisters and conferred as well as argued with Mary, Queen of Scots. He was a proud member ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300219708
SKU
V9780300219708
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About Jane Dawson
Jane Dawson is John Laing Professor of Reformation History, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. She lives near Cupar in Fife.
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