This work offers the first full-length study of the only armed rebellion in Elizabethan England. Addressing recent scholarship on the Reformation and popular politics, it highlights the religious motivations of the rebel rank and file, the rebellion's afterlife in Scotland, and the deadly consequences suffered in its aftermath.

KRISTA KESSELRING is an Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University, Canada, and has previously published Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State.