The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with names like Fortescue, Littleton and More.

Hierarchomachia is a seventeenth-century English play, long thought to have been lost, that satirizes many prominent figures in the English Catholic community.

Dr Korsten provides a biographical sketch of Thomas Baker and reconstructs his library of 4300 titles.

Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century th