Bibliography

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM M. LAMONT

from 1959 to 2011

Compiled by Mark Goldie

 

(A) BOOKS, JOURNALS ARTICLES, AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

 

1959

‘Episcopacy and a “Godly Discipline”, 1641-1646’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 10 (1959), pp. 74-89.

 

1961

‘The Controversial Writings of William Prynne’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 34 (1961), pp. 108-10.

‘William Prynne, 1600-1669: “the Mountainous Ice” of Puritanism’, History Today, 11 (Mar. 1961), pp. 199-205.

 

1963

Marginal Prynne, 1600-1669 (London, 1963).

‘Prynne, Burton, and the Puritan Triumph’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 27 (1963-4), pp. 103-13.

 

1964

‘Prynne, Burton, and the Puritan Triumph’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 27 (1964), pp. 103-13.

‘Macaulay, the Archbishop, and the Civil War’, History Today, 14 (Nov. 1964), pp. 791-6.

 

1966

‘The Rise and Fall of Bishop Bilson’, Journal of British Studies, 5 (1966), pp. 22-32.

‘The Squire who Changed Sides [Sir Edward Dering]’, History Today, 11 (Nov. 1961).

 

1969

Godly Rule: Politics and Religion, 1603-1660 (London, 1969)

‘Puritanism as History and Historiography: Some Further Thoughts’, Past and Present, 44 (1969), pp. 133-46.

 

1972

‘Richard Baxter, the Apocalypse, and the Mad Major’, Past and Present, 55 (1972), pp. 68-90.

 

1974

[Essay in] C. Webster, ed., The Intellectual Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (Routledge and Kegan Paul)

 

1975

Politics, Religion, and Literature in the Seventeenth Century (London, 1975).[Co-edited with Sybil Oldfield.]

 

1976

[Editor] The Tudors and the Stuarts (Sussex Books).

 

1979

Richard Baxter and the Millenium(London, 1979).

 

1980

‘Marjorie Reeves as a Teacher’ and ‘Christian Magistrate and Romish Wolf’, in Ann Williams, ed., Prophecy and Millenarianism: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Reeves (London, 1980), pp. 13-19, 279-303.

 

1981

‘S. T. Bindoff’, History Workshop Journal, 11 (1981), p. 220. [Obituary.]

 

1982

The World of the Muggletonians(London, 1982).[Co-authored with Christopher Hill and Barry Reay.]

 

1983

‘The Muggletonians, 1652-1979: a Vertical Approach’, Past and Present, 99 (1983), pp. 22-40.

 

1984

‘The Muggletonians: A Rejoinder’, Past and Present, 104 (1984), pp. 159-63. [Response to Christopher Hill.]

 

1985

‘The Rise of Arminianism Reconsidered’, Past and Present, 107 (1985), pp. 227-31.[Response to Peter White.]

‘History in Primary Schools: a Comment’, History Workshop Journal, 19 (1985), pp. 144-7.

 

1986

‘Pamphleteering, the Protestant Consensus, and the English Revolution’, in R. C. Richardson and G. M. Ridden, eds., Freedom and the English Revolution: Essays in History and Literature (Manchester, 1986), pp. 72-92.

 

1987

‘The Left and its Past: Revisiting the 1650s’, History Workshop, 23 (1987), pp. 141-53.

 

1988

‘Debate: British History: Past, Present – and Future?’,Past and Present, 119 (1988), pp. 183-93. [Response to David Cannadine.]

 

1990

‘The Religious Origins of the English Civil War’ and‘Pamphleteering in the English Revolution’, in Gordon Schochet, P. E. Tatspaugh, and Carol Brobreck, ed., Religion, Resistance, and Civil War (Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought, Proceedings, 3, 1990), pp. 1-11, 179-200.

‘The Religion of Andrew Marvell: Locating the “Bloody Horse”’, in ConalCondren and A. D. Cousins, eds., The Political Identity of Andrew Marvell (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 135-56.

[Untitled], in Juliet Gardner, The History Debate (London, 1990), pp. 28-34.

 

1991

Puritanism and the English Revolution (London). A reprint of his trilogy: Marginal Prynne, Godly Rule, Richard Baxter and the Millennium.

 

1993

‘Arminianism: the Controversy that Never Was’, in Nicholas Phillipson and Quentin Skinner, eds., Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 45-66. [Festschrift for J. G. A. Pocock.]

‘The Puritan Revolution: a Historiographical Essay’, in J. G. A. Pocock, ed., The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 119-45. [Folger Institute, Washington DC.]

 

1994

(Editor), Richard Baxter, A Holy Commonwealth (Cambridge, 1994).[Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.]

‘The Two “National Churches” of 1691 and 1829’, in Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts, eds., Religion, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 335-52.

‘Oliver Cromwell and English Calvinism’, Cromwell 400, ed. Peter Gaunt, pp. 68-72.

 

1996

‘A New Jerusalem: the Elusive Dream’, in Malcolm Chase and Ian Dyck, eds., Living and Learning: Essays in Honour of J. F. C. Harrison (Aldershot, 1996), pp. 10-24.

Puritanism and Historical Controversy (London, 1996).

 

1998

Historical Controversies and Historians (London, 1998) [Edited; chapters by historians at the University of Sussex.]

‘R. H. Tawney: “Who did not Write a Single Work which can be Trusted”?’, in ditto, pp. 109-20.

 

2001

Puritanism and the Origins of the English Civil War (Dr Williams’s Library, London, Annual Lecture, 2000).

‘Puritanism, Liberty, and the Putney Debates’, in Michael J. Mendle, ed., The Putney Debates of 1647: the Army, the Levellers, and the English State (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 241-55.

 

2002

‘Richard Baxter, “Popery”, and the Origins of the English Civil War’, History, 87 (2002), pp. 336-52.

 

2003

Puritanism and the Origins of the English Civil War (London: Dr Williams’s Trust, 2003: Friends of Dr Williams’s Library Annual Lecture, 54), pp. 23.

 

2004

‘The Religious Origins of the English Civil War: Two False Witnesses’, in David Trim and Peter Balderstone, eds., Cross, Crown, and Community: Religion, Government, and Culture in Early Modern England, 1400-1800 (Oxford, 2004), pp. 177-96.

 

2006

Last Witnesses: the Muggletonian History, 1652-1979 (Aldershot, 2006), pp. xv + 267.

 

2007

‘The English Civil War and Putney Debates’, in David Powell, Tom Hickey, and Colins Richmond, eds., Democracy: the Long Revolution (London, 2007), pp. 38-56.

‘False Witnesses? The English Civil War and English Ecumenism’, in Richard Bonney and David Trim, eds., The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France (Oxford, 2007), pp. 89-108.

 

2008

‘Authority and Liberty: Hobbes and the Sects’, in John Morrow and Jonathan Scott, eds., Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis (Exeter, 2008), pp. 29-44.

 

2009

‘Norman Rufus Colin Cohn, 1915-2007’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 161 (Biographical Memoirs, VIII) (2009), pp. 87-108.

‘Norman Cohn (1915-2007)’, History Workshop Journal, 67 (2009), pp. 297-8.[Reprinted from The Independent, 29 September 2007.]

 

(B) ENTRIES IN THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (2004):

 

Alsop, Vincent, Puritan minister

Blake, Thomas, CoE clergyman

Clarkson, Laurence, sectary

Cohn, Norman, historian

Crandon, John, religious controversialist

Danson, Thomas, Puritan minister

Delamaine, Alexander, Muggletonian

Gell, Katharine, Puritan patron

Glover, Boyer, Muggletonian

Ince, Peter, Puritan minister

Muggleton, Lodowicke, Muggletonian

Pinchbecke, Abraham, Puritan minister

Prynne, William, Puritan pamphleteer and lawyer

Reeve, John, Muggletonian

Saddington, John, Muggletonian

Tomkinson, Thomas, Muggletonian

Vines, Richard, CoE clergyman

Warren, John, Puritan minister

 

(C) BOOK REVIEWS (1971-2011):

 

Abbreviation: EHR = English Historical Review.

 

Christopher Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution. History, 56 (1971), pp. 268-9.

 

Christopher Hill, The English Revolution: Antichrist in Seventeenth-Century England. Encounter (May 1974), pp. 66-71

 

Alan G. R. Smith, The Reign of James VI and I. History, 59 (1974), pp. 467-8.

 

Brian Manning, Politics, Religion, and the English Civil War. History, 60 (1975), pp. 120-1.

 

G. E. Aylmer, ed., The Levellers in the English Revolution. JEH, 27 (1976), p. 206.

 

Bryan W. Ball, A Great Expectation: Eschatological Thought in English Protestantism to 1660. JEH, 27 (1976), pp. 319-20.

 

Julia Briggs, This Stage-Play World: English Literature and its Background, 1580-1625. Times Literary Supplement, (30 Sept 1983), p. 1065.

 

Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution.EHR, 93 (1978), pp. 621-6.

 

Sears McGee, The Godly Man in Stuart England: Anglicans, Puritans, and the Two Tables, 1626-1670. EHR, 93 (1978), pp. 187-9.

 

Louis Roux, Thomas Hobbes, Les éléments du droit naturel etpolitique. EHR, 95 (1980), p. 419.

 

Arthur H. Williamson, Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI: the Apocalypse, the Union, and the Shaping of Scotland’s Public Culture. EHR, 96 (1981), pp. 210-11.

 

C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society, 1516-1700. EHR, 97 (1982), pp. 367-71.

 

Howard Erskine-Hill and Graham Storey, eds., Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War. History Today, 33 (Oct. 1983), p. 50.

 

John R. Knott, The Sword and the Spirit: Puritan Responses to the Bible. EHR, 98 (1983), p. 869.

 

Patrick Collinson Godly People: Essays on English Protestantism and Puritanism. Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, 3 (1984), pp. 148-51.

 

Nigel Smith, ed., A Collection of Ranter Writings from the Seventeenth Century. History Today, 34 (Feb. 1984), pp. 49-50.

 

Charles Hambrick-Stowe, The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England. EHR, 100 (1985), pp. 667-8.

 

H. Keeble, Richard Baxter: Puritan Man of Letters. EHR, 100 (1985), pp. 182-3.

 

F. McGregor and Barry Reay, eds., Radical Religion in the English Revolution. History, 70 (1985), pp. 517-8.

 

Barry Reay, The Quakers and the English Revolution. History, 71 (1986), pp. 152-3.

 

Paul Seaver, Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. Catholic Historical Review, 72 (1986), pp. 273-4.

 

Richard Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers. EHR, 102 (1987), pp. 214-5.

 

Michael Finlayson, Historians, Puritans, and the English Revolution; Richard L. Greaves, Saints and Rebels: Seven Nonconformists in Stuart England; R. B. Jenkins, Henry Smith: England’s Silver-Tongued Preacher; Thomas A. Mason, Serving God and Mammon: William Juxon, 1582-1663; Paul S. Seaver, Wallington’s World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London. Journal of British Studies, 26 (1987), pp. 347-53.

 

Robert S. Paul, The Assembly of the Lord: Politics and Religion in the Westminster Assembly. EHR, 102 (1987), pp. 1032-3.

 

Derek Beales and Geoffrey Best, eds., History, Society, and the Churches: Essays in Honour of Owen Chadwick. EHR, 103 (1988), p. 282.

 

Tim Harris, London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II; Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics and Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.History Workshop Journal, 27 (1989), pp. 188-93.

 

Christopher Hill, The Collected Essays of Christopher Hill, Vol. 2. EHR, 104 (1989), pp. 204-5.

 

H. Keeble, ed., John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus: Tercentenary Essays. Journal of Theological Studies, 40 (1989), pp. 307-9.

 

Dewey D. Wallace, ed., The Spirituality of the Later English Puritans: An Anthology. JEH, 41 (1990), pp. 122-3.

 

Charles Carlton, Archbishop William Laud. EHR, 106 (1991), pp. 183-4.

 

Dwight Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives: the Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism; Stephen Brachlow, The Communion of Saints: Radical Puritan and Separatist Ecclesiology, 1570-1625. EHR, 107 (1992), pp. 193-4.

 

Christopher Hill, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution.EHR, 108 (1993), pp. 979-81.

 

Max Beloff, An Historian in the Twentieth Century; G. R. Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics, vol. 4, Papers and Reviews, 1982-1990. History Today, 44 (Jan. 1994), pp. 52-3.

 

Richard Greaves, John Bunyan and English Nonconformity. JEH, 45 (1994), p. 159.

 

Hans Boersma, A Hot Pepper Com: Richard Baxter’s Doctrine of Justification in its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy. JEH, 45 (1994), pp. 709-11.

 

Thomas Healey and Jonathan Sawday, eds., Literature and the English Civil War. EHR, 109 (1994), p. 180.

 

Kenneth Fincham, Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I. EHR, 109 (1994), pp. 441-2.

 

AvihuZakai, Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in Puritan Migration to America. EHR, 110 (1995), pp. 178-9.

 

Felicity Heal and Clive Holmes, The Gentry in England and Wales, 1500-1700; Rosemary O’Day, The Family and Relationships, 1500-1900: England, France, and the USA. History Today, 46 (Mar. 1996), pp. 55-6.

 

Natalie Zemon Davies, Women in the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives; Olwen Hufton, The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe, vol. 1, 1500-1800; Anthony Fletcher, Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800. History Today, 47 (Jan. 1997), p. 52.

 

Michael Mullett, John Bunyan in Context.EHR, 113 (1998), pp. 461-2.

 

Stevie Davies, Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution, 1640-1660. EHR, 114 (1999), pp. 716-17.

 

David Lowenthal, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History.Historical Journal, 42 (1999), pp. 309-10.

 

Peter G. McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching. EHR, 114 (1999), pp. 1311-12.

 

Robert Phillips, History Teaching, Nationhood, and the State.History Workshop Journal, 47 (1999), pp. 300-3.

 

John Spurr, English Puritanism, 1603-1689. EHR, 114 (1999), pp. 984-5.

 

Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack, eds., Civil Histories: Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas. EHR, 96 (2001), pp. 665-6.

 

Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725. JEH, 52 (2001), pp. 521-2.

 

L. Underwood, ed., The Acts of the Witnesses: the Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings. EHR, 116 (2001), pp. 956-7.

 

David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric, and Politics, 1627-1660. Literature and History, 10 (2001), pp. 93-4.

 

Sarah Barber, A Revolutionary Rogue: Henry Marten and the English Republic. JEH, 53 (2002), pp. 108-9.

 

Andrew Bradstock, Winstanley and the Diggers, 1649-1799. EHR, 117 (2002), pp. 182-3.

 

Tim Cooper, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism. EHR, 117 (2002), pp. 186-7.

 

Hans Boersma, Richard Baxter’s Understanding of Infant Baptism. EHR, 118 (2003), pp. 510-11.

 

Barry Coward, A Companion to Stuart Britain. EHR, 118 (2003), pp. 1331-3.

 

Peter Lake, The Boxmaker’s Revenge: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London. JEH, 54 (2003), pp. 97-8.

 

Ann Hughes, Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution. EHR, 120 (2005), pp. 530-1.

 

Paul Lim, In Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter’s Puritan Ecclesiology in its Seventeenth-Century Context. American Historical Review, 110 (2005), pp. 863-4.

 

John Coffey, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England. JEH, 58 (2007), pp. 578-9.

 

Jeffrey R. Collins, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes. EHR, 122 (2007), p. 1091.

 

David R. Como, Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil War England. EHR, 122 (2007), pp. 760-1.

 

Ann Thomson, Bodies of Thought: Religion and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment. English Historical Review, 125 (2010), pp. 1534-5.

 

Thomas N. Corns, Ann Hughes, and David Loewenstein, eds., The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley, 2 vols. JEH, 62 (2011), pp. 184-5.

 

(D) WORKS ON EDUCATION

 

Article in Teaching History, Vol. 1, No.2, November 1969, pp. 109-113

 

[Essay in] M. Ballard, ed., New Movements in the Teaching of History (Temple Smith), 1970 [secondary education]

 

[Editor] The Realities of Teaching History: Beginnings (Chatto and Windus), 1972 [secondary education]

 

‘Forget the Memory Man’ [against Conservative critiques of school history teaching], Times Educational Supplement, 3 Nov. 1989

 

‘Big Brother and the Roy Plomley Test’ [against Conservative imposition of research assessment exercises on universities], Times Higher Education, 10 January 1992. [higher education]

 

Thanks also to Carlos Hood for his work helping to compile this list

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