Print Culture and the Early Quakers

Informationen zum Autor Kate Peters is Lecturer in Archives and Records Management, University College London. Klappentext The early Quaker movement was remarkable for its prolific use of the printing press. Carefully orchestrated by a handful of men and women who were the movement's leaders, printed tracts were an integral feature of the rapid spread of Quaker ideas in the 1650s. Drawing on very rich documentary evidence, this book examines how and why Quakers were able to make such effective use of print. As a crucial element in an extensive proselytising campaign, printed tracts enabled the emergence of the Quaker movement as a uniform, national phenomenon. The book explores the impressive organization underpinning Quaker pamphleteering and argues that the early movement should not be dismissed as a disillusioned spiritual remnant of the English Revolution, but was rather a purposeful campaign which sought, and achieved, effective dialogue with both the body politic and society at large. 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
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2005
• EAN: 9780521770903
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77090-3
• 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; 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)