Heretic queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the wars of religion

Prologue : the sacrificial priest

A wounded and divided land, 1558-1566. The new Deborah

The realm and the ministers of Lucifer

Determined to be a virgin queen

Many an uneasy truce

The battle for hearts and minds

Untrustworthy allies

Christ's soldiers

Mary Stuart, the great Catholic threat

The Catholic ascendancy, 1566-1580. Betrayal amid dreamy spires

The iconoclastic fury

Two murders and mayhem

An ill-conceived escape and rebellion

Regnans in excelsis

The English state, plots and counterplots

Massacre in Paris

The Puritan underworld of London

Via Dolorosa

The years of religious terror, 1580-1591. God's outriders

The ungodly witch hunts

Frustrating the designs of our enemies

A long-awaited execution

God's obvious design

A house divided, 1591-1603. The Norfolk landing

Marprelate, Puritans, Catholics, and players

Elizabeth's éminence grise and the final battles for England

Epilogue.