| Acknowledgments |
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| Author's Note |
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| Prolouge: The Sacrificial Priest |
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Part I A Wounded and Divided Land, 1558-1566 |
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Two The Realm and the Ministers of Lucifer |
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Three Determined to Be a Virgin Queen |
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36 | (15) |
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Four Many an Uneasy Truce |
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Five The Battle for Hearts and Minds |
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66 | (14) |
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80 | (11) |
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91 | (8) |
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Eight Mary Stuart, the Great Catholic Threat |
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99 | (14) |
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Part II The Catholic Ascendancy, 1566-1580 |
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Nine Betrayal amid Dreamy Spires |
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113 | (11) |
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Ten The Iconoclastic Fury |
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124 | (11) |
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Eleven Two Murders and Mayhem |
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135 | (12) |
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Twelve An Ill-Conceived Escape and Rebellion |
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147 | (12) |
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Thirteen Regnans in Excelsis |
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159 | (7) |
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Fourteen The English State, Plots and Counterplots |
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166 | (11) |
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Fifteen Massacre in Paris |
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177 | (11) |
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Sixteen The Puritan Underworld of London |
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188 | (10) |
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198 | (15) |
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Part III The Years of Religious Terror, 1580-1591 |
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213 | (14) |
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Nineteen The Ungodly Witch Hunts |
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227 | (11) |
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Twenty Frustrating the Designs of Our Enemies |
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238 | (9) |
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Twenty-One A Long-Awaited Execution |
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247 | (15) |
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Twenty-Two God's Obvious Design |
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262 | (13) |
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Part IV A House Divided, 1591-1603 |
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Twenty-Three The Norfolk Landing |
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275 | (5) |
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Twenty-Four Marprelate, Puritans, Catholics, and Players |
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280 | (15) |
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Twenty-Five Elizabeth's Eminence Grise and the Final Battles for England |
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295 | (10) |
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305 | (4) |
| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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