50 Tht Sixteenth Centurj (1483 -1603)

John Foxe's book to produce an entrancing and utterly con-
vincing picture of the popular attitudes of the time, formed by
low-grade religion and chauvinistic prejudice.298 The social
history of music receives attention from Stephens for the earlier
and from Woodfill for the later part of the century.299 The
mass-production industry which serves Shakespeare and other
Elizabethan poets cannot be admitted here, but one may men-
tion a book on the activities of English actors in Sweden which
is oriented more towards the social than theliteraryproblems.300
A dissertation which collects English opinions concerning the
newly discovered Russia contains some information on trade
which Willan's work has rendered out of date,301 The doyen
among historians of mathematics has composed a biographical
collection for the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.302

^ William Haller, Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation. L:
Cape: 1963. Pp. 359. Rev: EHR 80, sBgf.

259 John Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. L: Methuen:
1961. Pp. xi, 481. Rev: EHR 78,167. - Walter L. Woodfill, Musi-
dans in English Society from Elizabeth to Charles L Princeton UP:
1953, Pp. w, 372. Rev: EHRfy 665.

3f'° Erik Wikland, Elizabethan Players and Sweden^ 1591 -1592. Stock-
holm: Alraqvist: 1962, Pp. 192. Rev: EHR 79, 413^

801 Karl Heinz Ruffmann, Das Russlandbild im England Shakespeam.
Gottingen: Musterschmidt; 1952. Pp. 185.

m E. G. R, Taylor, The Mathematical Practitioners of Tutor and Stuart
England. CUP; 1954. Pp. xi, 443.