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NEW (4-1-04): "Putting Historical Figures on Trial in the Classroom" -- published on line in the British Studies Intelligencer

Books:

Practical Divinity: The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham (with Dr. Kenneth L. Parker, Department of Theological Studies, Saint Louis University). St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Ashgate, 1998.

Religion and the English People, 1500-1640: New Voices/New Perspectives (editor). Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 45. Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998.

Marriage and the English Reformation. Blackwell, 1994.

Articles and Essays:

"Confession and Absolution in Caroline Cambridge: The 1637 Crisis in Context" in Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation, ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory, Studies in Church History 40 (2004), pp.180-93.

"Good Pastors or Careless Shepherds? Parish Ministers and the English Reformation," History 88/3, July 2003, pp. 423-36

"The Boring of the Ear: Shaping the Pastoral Practice of Preaching in England, 1540-1640," in Preachers and People in the Reformations and Early Modern Period, ed. Larissa Juliet Taylor. Brill, 2001.

"English Funeral Sermons as Sources: The Example of Female Piety in Pre-1640 Sermons," Albion, 32/4, Winter 2000, pp. 567-97.

"Greenham, Richard" and "Taylor, Rowland" for The New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Cassandra Banished? New Research on Religion in Tudor and Early Stuart England," in Religion and the English People (see above).

" 'Practical Divinity': Richard Greenham and Parish Ministry in Elizabethan England," in Religion and the English People (see above).

"The origins, function, and status of the office of churchwarden, with particular reference to the diocese of Ely," in The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725, ed. Margaret Spufford. Cambridge University Press, 1995: pp. 164-207.

"The Historical Value of the Ely Consistory Probate Records," in Index of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely, 1449-1858, ed. E. S. Leedham-Green, 3 vols. British Record Society, 1994, vol. 1, pp. xvii-lix.

"Courtship in Tudor England," History Today 43 (August 1993), pp. 23-29.

"The Marriage of William Turner," Historical Research 65 (1992), pp. 336-39.

"Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation," Journal of British Studies 31 (1992), pp. 1-31.

"Royal Divorce," "Royal Supremacy," in Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603, ed. R. Fritze. Greenwood Press, 1991.

"Marriage Reform and the Elizabethan High Commission," Sixteenth Century Journal 21 (1990), pp. 437-51.

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