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Book Synopsis Religion and Society in Elizabethan Sussex by : Roger Burrow Manning
Download or read book Religion and Society in Elizabethan Sussex written by Roger Burrow Manning and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1969 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The success or failure of a legislative programme ultimately depends upon the personnel and institutions of local government. This book is a study of the agents who exercised the powers of the royal supremacy in ecclesiastical affairs and of the institutions--civil and ecclesiastical--which were employed in the enforcement of the Elizabethan religious settlement in one particular county. Taking Sussex as a microcosm of Elizabethan society, the role of the bishop of Chichester and their episcopal courts, the lords lieutenant and the justices of the peace in enforcing the acts of supremacy and uniformity is examined in detail. The chief merit of the book is that it is the only work so far produced that examines all aspects of the enforcement of the religious settlement. Dr Manning has sought to determine just how successful the government of Elizabeth was in imposing religious uniformity and to what extent this was resisted by clerical Puritanism or by Roman Catholic recusancy among the gentry and nobility. This situation is explained in terms not only of religious influence but also of administrative, sociological and economic factors" -Publishers
Book Synopsis Society and Religion in Elizabethan England by : Richard L. Greaves
Download or read book Society and Religion in Elizabethan England written by Richard L. Greaves and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Religion and Society in Early Stuart England by : Darren Oldridge
Download or read book Religion and Society in Early Stuart England written by Darren Oldridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this book presents an overview of some recent debates on the history of religion in England from the accession of James I to the outbreak of the Civil War. Darren Oldridge rejects the polarisation of discussion on the meaning and impact of Laudianism’s innovations and the effects of the zealous Puritans. Instead, the author draws them together to emphasise how each directly influenced the other within a wider heightening of religious tension. Two of its central themes are the impact of the ecclesiastical policies of Charles I and the relationship between puritanism and popular culture. These themes are developed in eight related essays, which emphasize the connections between church policy, puritanism and popular religion. The book draws on much original research from the Midlands, as well as recent work by other scholars in the field, to set out a new synthesis which attempts to explain the emergence of religious conflict in the decades before the English Civil War.
Book Synopsis Religion and sociaty in Elizabethan Sussex by : Roger B. Manning
Download or read book Religion and sociaty in Elizabethan Sussex written by Roger B. Manning and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 by : Michael C. Questier
Download or read book Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 written by Michael C. Questier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of conversion and its implications during the English Reformation.
Book Synopsis English Society 1580–1680 by : Keith Wrightson
Download or read book English Society 1580–1680 written by Keith Wrightson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Religion and Society in Elizabeth Sussex by : Roger B. Manning
Download or read book Religion and Society in Elizabeth Sussex written by Roger B. Manning and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 by : Mr Brett Usher
Download or read book Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 written by Mr Brett Usher and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspondence of leading politicians and clerical candidates as well as the Exchequer records of the financial arrangements accompanying each appointment. Beginning in 1577, the book picks up the narrative where Brett Usher’s previous book (William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577) left off, following the fall of Archbishop Grindal, which brought the Elizabethan church to the brink of disaster. The book begins with an outline of the period under review, challenging the traditional view of corruption and decline. Instead Usher provides a more complex picture, emphasizing the importance of court rivalries over patronage and place, and a broadly more benign attitude from the Exchequer, which distinguishes the period from the first half of the reign. Within this milieu the book situates the dominance of the Cecils - father and son - in ecclesiastical affairs as the key continuity between the two halves of Elizabeth’s reign. Providing a fresh analysis of the Burghley’s long and influential role within Elizabethan government, Usher both illuminates court politics and the workings of the Exchequer, as well as the practical operation of Elizabeth’s supremacy. Specifically he demonstrates how Elizabeth learnt a valuable lesson from the debacle over the fall of Grindal, and from the late 1570s, rather than taking the lead, customarily she looked to her councillors and courtiers to come to some accommodation with each other before she would authorize appointments and promotions. Note: Brett Usher died in 2013 before the publication of this book. Final editing of the typescript was undertaken by Professor Kenneth Fincham of the University of Kent, who also guided the book through the publication process.
Book Synopsis Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation by : Helen L. Parish
Download or read book Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation written by Helen L. Parish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an examination of the debate over clerical marriage in Reformation polemic, and of its impact on the English clergy in the second half of the sixteenth century. Clerical celibacy was more than an abstract theological concept; it was a central image of mediaeval Catholicism which was shattered by the doctrinal iconoclasm of Protestant reformers. This study sets the debate over clerical marriage within the context of the key debates of the Reformation, offering insights into the nature of the reformers’ attempts to break with the Catholic past, and illustrating the relationship between English polemicists and their continental counterparts. The debate was not without practical consequences, and the author sets this study of polemical arguments alongside an analysis of the response of clergy in several English dioceses to the legalisation of clerical marriage in 1549. Conclusions are based upon the evidence of wills, visitation records, and the proceedings of the ecclesiastical courts. Despite the printed rhetoric, dogmatic certainties were often beyond the reach of the majority, and the author’s conclusions highlight the chasm which could exist between polemical ideal and practical reality during the turmoil of the Reformation.
Book Synopsis The English Reformation and the Laity by : Caroline Litzenberger
Download or read book The English Reformation and the Laity written by Caroline Litzenberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the effects of the English Reformation on the full spectrum of lay religion from 1540 to 1580 through an investigation of individuals and parishes in Gloucestershire. Rather than focusing on either the acceptance of Protestantism or the demise of the traditional Catholic religion, as other historians have done, it considers all shades of belief against the backdrop of shifting official religious policy. The result is the story of responses ranging from stiff resistance to eager acceptance, creating a picture of the religion of the laity which is diverse and complex, but also layered as parishes and individuals expressed their faith in ways which reflected the institutional or personal nature of their piety. Finally, while the book focuses on Gloucestershire, it reveals broad patterns of beliefs and practices which could probably be found all over England.
Book Synopsis Secret Shakespeare by : Richard Wilson
Download or read book Secret Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.
Download or read book The Stuart Age written by Barry Coward and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. The Stuart Age is a long-standing favourite of lecturers and students of early modern British history, and this new edition is essential reading for those studying Stuart Britain.
Book Synopsis Piety and Politics by : Mary Fulbrook
Download or read book Piety and Politics written by Mary Fulbrook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics in early modern Europe.
Book Synopsis Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England by : David Cressy
Download or read book Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Travesties and Transgressions, David Cressy examines how the orderly, Protestant, and hierarchical society of post-Reformation England coped with the cultural challenges posed by beliefs and events outside the social norm. He uses a series of linked stories and close readings of local texts and narratives to investigate unorthodox happenings such as bestiality and monstrous births, seduction and abortion, excommunication and irregular burial, nakedness and cross-dressing. Each story, and the reaction it generated, exposes the strains and stresses of its local time and circumstances. The reigns of Elizabeth, James, and Charles I were witness to endless religious disputes, tussles for power within the aristocracy, and arguments galore about the behaviour and beliefs of common people. Questions raised by 'unnatural' episodes were debated throughout society at local and national levels, and engaged the attention of the magistrates, the bishops, the crown, and the court. The resolution of such questions was not taken lightly in a world in which God and the devil still fought for people's souls.
Book Synopsis The Heavenly Contract by : David Zaret
Download or read book The Heavenly Contract written by David Zaret and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a heavenly contract, uniting God and humanity in a bargain of salvation, emerged as the keystone of Puritan theology in early modern England. Yet this concept, with its connotations of exchange and reciprocity, runs counter to other tenets of Calvinism, such as predestination, that were also central to Puritan thought. With bold analytic intelligence, David Zaret explores this puzzling conflict between covenant theology and pure Calvinism. In the process he demonstrates that popular beliefs and activities had tremendous influence on Puritan religion.
Book Synopsis English Society by : Keith Wrightson
Download or read book English Society written by Keith Wrightson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant and persuasive synthesis of the best recent work in all fields of seventeenth century English history."--Christopher Hill "A triumphant success . . . deserves to be widely read."--H. T. Dickinson "Conceived as an intellectual whole and vibrantly alive."--John Kenyon, The Observer English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and societal change in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change. The book emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities, and the unevenness of the process of transition, to build up an overall interpretation of continuity and change. In this edition, Keith Wrightson provides a new introduction to set the book in its context and to reflect on recent research, together with an updated guide to further reading. Keith Wrightson is a professor of history at Yale University. His many books include Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain.
Book Synopsis Reformation in Britain and Ireland by : Felicity Heal
Download or read book Reformation in Britain and Ireland written by Felicity Heal and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four countries/three kingdoms. The text uses a broadly chronological framework to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-Reformation churches; the political crises of the break with Rome; the development of Protestantism and changes in popular religious culture. The tools of conversion - the Bible, preaching and catechising - are accorded specific attention, as is doctrinal change. It is argued that political calculations did most to determine the success or failure of reformation, though the ideological commitment of a clerical elite was also of central significance.