Patrick Collinson

The original A Meditation in the form of sonnets, added to the sermons, is said to come from the hand of a friend: that is, it is not definitely claimed by the author of the...

Scholarly attention paid to the formerly almost invisible AL dates back forty years, to 1965 and Patrick Collinson 's The Role of Women in the English Reformation Illustrated by the Life and Friendships of Anne...

Historian Patrick Collinson remarks that QEI would have viewed her translations as the most intellectually serious, the most literary, of all her writings.

Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey , placed on the throne...

Patrick Collinson in his ODNB entry on Elizabeth calls this multiple translation a truly prodigious achievement.

Patrick Collinson in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography observes: Excessive attention bestowed on the greatest of the queen's men, her favourites, has distracted consideration from . . . her women. (Less prominent men, and...

Historians differ about Anne. George Bernard thinks she was frivolous and fashionable, and may have been to some degree guilty as charged. On the other hand her biographer Eric Ives calls her the most influential...

There are suggestions that the young Elizabeth was ambitious. She told her father she hoped to be not only the imitator of his virtues but also heir to them. When her brother was king she...

Though no longer subject to persecution, AL found herself still a dissenter from the established form of Christianity: in Patrick Collinson 's words, the very first documented protestant separatist from the Elizabethan church. Collinson also...