1. Douglas Trevor, ‘Sadness in The Faerie Queene’ in Gail Kern Paster, Katherine Rowe and Mary Floyd-Wilson (eds), Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 241.
2. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (Oxford University Press, 1967), 26–7.
3. Patrick Collinson so describes Paul’s Cross because of its religious and political prominence. Cf. P. Collinson, The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1988), 20.
4. For a discussion of the difficulties, see John Corrigan, ‘Introduction: Emotions Research and the Academic Study of Religion’ in John Corrigan (ed.), Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations (Oxford University Press, 2004), 6, 7–13.
5. Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (Oxford University Press, 2013), 83.