Hugh Latimer is not as accessible or as attractive to the modern reader as other sixteenth-century literary figures because he was a preacher, and preachers no longer command the interest they did in his day. Furthermore, he was a preacher in a particular religious cause--Protestantism--that no longer elicits the strong favorable or unfavorable reactions it did when Latimer preached it. His theology is not original, but his genius and enduring legacy is that he is the one who made the Reformers' arguments understandable to the people. In doing so he used contemporary images and diction drawn from secular life and a lively colloquial style designed to link court with country and magistrate with yeoman. As perhaps the greatest popularizer of the most significant intellectual, moral, and social movement of his time, Latimer remains an essential vehicle for understanding sixteenth-century England's religion, society, and language. No anthology of sixteenth-century...