Best Historical Novels About John Knox

John Knox

John Knox was a Scottish Protestant reformer, preacher and writer who became a leading architect of the Reformation in Scotland. Influenced by Reformed theology, he opposed Catholic worship and promoted a national Protestant church governed through ministers and elders.

Knox repeatedly clashed with Mary, Queen of Scots, over religion, authority and resistance to rulers. His History of the Reformation in Scotland remains a powerful but partisan account of the age.

In Sam Burnell’s A Queen’s Conspirator, William Cecil gives Richard Fitzwarren a mission that the government must be able to deny: escort the reformer John Knox safely towards Scotland, where his preaching can strengthen the Lords of the Congregation. In Nigel Tranter’s Marie and Mary, as regent, she must balance noble factions, foreign alliances and the widening religious division sharpened by the preaching of John Knox. John Knox is treated fictionally in Steven Veerapen’s The Queen’s Consort and Nigel Tranter’s Warden of the Queen’s March.

Historical novels and book series featuring John Knox (1 series)

Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical in Order

by Sam Burnell 11 books 4.3(10,803)

The Richard Fitzwarren Tudor Historical series, also known as Mercenary for Hire or the Tudor Mystery Trials, follows the fictional brothers Richard and Jack Fitzwarren through the violent political and religious changes of mid-sixteenth-century England. The sequence begins with the Seymour scandal surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth, moves…