John Knox

This masterful biography is the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland and founder of the Presbyterian denomination. Drawing largely on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and colleague Christopher Goodman, Jane Dawson challenges the traditionally-held stereotype of Knox as a strident and misogynist religious reformer whose influence rarely extended beyond Scotland. Instead, she reveals a man who relied heavily on the support of his 'godly sisters' and conferred as well as…