Treacherous Faith - Loewenstein, David (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and the Humanities , Penn State University)

Treacherous Faith is a major study of heresy and the literary imagination from the English Reformation to the Restoration. It analyzes both canonical and lesser-known writers who contributed to fears about the contagion of heresy, as well as those who challenged cultural constructions of heresy and the rhetoric of fear-mongering