Jones, Norman (Leslie)

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JONES, Norman (Leslie)

JONES, Norman (Leslie). American, b. 1951. Genres: History, Law. Career: Utah State University, Logan, instructor, 1977, assistant professor, 1978-81, associate professor, 1981-87, professor of history, 1987-, head of department, 1994-, head of Oxford University Exchange Program, 1989-, acting director of Liberal Arts and Sciences Program, 1993-94. Harvard University, Mellon faculty fellow, 1982-83; Cambridge University, visiting fellow of Clare College, 1992; guest speaker at colleges and universities; gives workshops and public lectures. Publications: Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559, 1982; God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England, 1989; (ed. with D. Dean, and contrib.) The Parliaments of Elizabethan England, 1993; The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s, 1993. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor to scholarly journals. Address: Department of History, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-0710, U.S.A.