"Laquita Higgs' book is valuable in helping to fill out the picture of sixteenth-century religious change in England, and will be studied with profit at all academic levels."
--Jennifer C. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Albion
— Jennifer C. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Albion
"[Higgs] powerfully evokes a community undergoing tumultuous change in an age of acute confessional conflict."
--Choice
— Choice
"No one . . . will be able to look at sixteenth-century Colchester again without giving serious consideration to this book. It is good to have it to read and better still to have it as a testament to her scholarship."
--Christopher Thompson, Essex Journal
— Christopher Thompson, Essex Journal
"Laquita Higgs's survey will be useful to both Reformation and regional historians; it is valuable to have this addition to sixteenth-century urban studies."
--Jennifer C. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
— Jennifer C. Ward, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Journal of Ecclesiastical History
"While writing a local history, rich with archival sources, Professor Higgs cannot help telling her story within the larger drama of the Tudor monarchy. In each development of the Reformation plot, Colchester residents appeared as extras, walk-ons, and leading actors with large and small parts. They were both observers and participants in the Reformation drama. . . . The important subplot of the book is the history of the godly magistrate in Colchester, or stated differently, a local chapter in international Calvinism. . . . This carefully crafted history provides a strong argument for the rapid growth of Protestantism in Tudor Colchester."
--Dale W. Johnson,, Southern Wesleyan University, Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume XXX, No. 4 (1999)
— Dale W. Johnson,, Southern Wesleyan University, Sixteenth Century Journal
"Higgs sensitively intertwines national events with local developments. . . . This is a thought-provoking and important book, which makes a significant contribution not just to studies of the urban Reformation, but to analyses of urban government and politics in the Reformation period."
--D. J. Lamburn, University of Leeds, Urban History , Volume 27, Number 2 (2000)
— D. J. Lamburn, University of Leeds, Urban History