Print Culture and the Early Quakers

Informationen zum Autor Kate Peters is Lecturer in Archives and Records Management, University College London. Klappentext Studies the early Quaker use of printed tracts! how they were produced and used. Zusammenfassung From the 1650s! the Quaker movement was unusually prolific in its use of the printing press. This book explores the early Quaker leaders' use of printed tracts! how they were produced! distributed and read! and how they were used as part of a dynamic campaign for religious and political liberty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Writing and authority in the early Quaker movement; 2. The production and readership of Quaker pamphlets; 3. A national movement: pamphleteering in East Anglia; 4. 'The Quakers Quaking': the printed identity of the movement; 5. 'Women's speaking justified': women and pamphleteering; 6. Pamphleteering and religious debate; 7. Print and political participation; 8. The James Nayler crisis, 1656; Bibliography of secondary sources.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Peters, Kate (University College London) Peters, Peters Kate
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521093125
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09312-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)