Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, C.1560-1660

The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus on what came to be regarded as orthodox.

List of contents

Lancelot Andrewes and the Myth of Anglicanism - Nicholas Tyacke
Demons, Deviance and Defiance: John Darrell and the Politics of Exorcism in late Elizabethan England - Thomas S. Freeman
Puritans, Predestination and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Early Seventeenth-Century England - David Como
From Temple to Synagogue: 'Old Conformity' in the 1640s-1650s and the Case of Christopher Harvey - Judith D Maltby
Clerical Conformity from Whitgift to Laud - Kenneth Fincham
Archbishop Richard Neile Revisited through Discussion of Concepts of 'Orthodoxy' and 'Conformity' - Andrew Foster
Moving the Goal Posts? Modified Subscription and the Construction of Conformity in the Early Stuart Church - Peter Lake
'Yeilding to the Extremity of the Time': Conformity, Orthodoxy and the Post-Reformation Catholic Community - Alexandra M Walsham
Conformity, Catholicism and the Law - Michael Questier
The Catholic Gentry, the Earl of Salisbury and the Baronets of 1611 - Pauline Croft

About the author

Peter Lake, Michael Questier

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lake
• Assisted by: Peter Lake (Editor), Michael Questier (Editor), Michael C. Questier (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2000
• EAN: 9780851157979
• ISBN: 978-0-85115-797-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Reli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Geschichte, Geschichte der Religion, HISTORY / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, RELIGION / History, History - General History