Title: NOT FOR THE UNINITIATE
Product review: Patrick Collinson is hailed on the book jacket as "Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, Cambridge. A renowned scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. . . ." I found this very small book, like any history, to have interesting nuggets, but was disappointed in that it assumed a familiarity with Reformation history I lack --and in fact purchased the book to acquire. The chapter on Calvin and Calvinism, for example counts only 16 small pages. These raced over the subject in a high-speed rattling-off of names, dates, and places, without engaging me in the historical story. One jacket blurb (London Times) recommended this book to readers like myself because of its brevity. I disagree. Find a larger book.
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