John Knox: References & Edit History

David Laing (ed.), The Works of John Knox, 6 vol. (1846–64), a work of distinguished scholarship containing the collected writings of Knox; W. Croft Dickinson (ed.), John Knox’s History of the Reformation in Scotland (1949, reprinted 1979), Knox’s own History in modern English, fully annotated and indispensable for the scholar as well as enjoyable for the layman; W. Stanford Reid, Trumpeter of God: A Biography of John Knox (1974, reissued 1982), a comprehensive biography; Jasper G. Ridley, John Knox (1968), a well-documented biography with a complete bibliography; Eustace Percy, John Knox (1937, reissued 1965), a sensitive and penetrating study of Knox and his times, but lacking in documentation; Geddes MacGregor, The Thundering Scot (1957); and Elizabeth Whitley, Plain Mr. Knox (1960), more popular studies for the general reader; James S. McEwen, The Faith of John Knox (1961), a study of Knox’s religious views and their relation to those of other Reformers; and Duncan Shaw (ed.), John Knox: A Quatercentenary Reappraisal (1975), four biographical essays.