ABSTRACT
One of the more recent attempts to reevaluate John Knox’s contribution to Reformation history was the 1998 book of 13 essays edited by Roger Mason, entitled John Knox and the British Reformations.1 In James Kirk’s essay in that volume, ‘John Knox and the Historians’,2 there is a sense that Knox continues in the scholarly imagination as either a theorist for political resistance or as an abstract, cold and exacting reformer or as a ‘grim ayatollah-like figure’,3 this last label the result of feminist reactions to First Blast of the Trumpet Against the monstrous Regiment of women. The goal of Mason’s collection is to help scholars see John Knox as an individual with a diversity of attitudes and beliefs yet an integral player in the Protestant international of the sixteenth century.
