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Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. It is designed to make accessible to readers much of the most recent research, and to guide them through the major historical controversies of the last twenty-five years: * the causes of the English Reformation
* the popularity of the Elizabethan Protestant Church
* the impact of the Laudian innovations of the 1630s
* the Puritan attempt to control popular culture and belief. By adopting a thematic rather than chronological approach, the book is also able to chart the long-term developments across the period in key areas such as doctrinal and liturgical change, the role of the clergy, and the importance of religion in the everyday lives of people.
List of contents
1 Introduction 2 Theology and liturgy 3 Sacred spaces 4 The Church in England and churches abroad 5 Conformist beliefs and practices 6 Heresy and dissent 7 The clergy 8 The Church and social control 9 Conclusions
About the author
Susan Doran, formerly Reader in History at St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill is now teaching at Christ Church, Oxford. Her books include Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I (1996), Elizabeth I and Religion (1993) and Elizabeth I and Foreign Policy (2000). Christopher Durston is Professor of History and Director for the Centre for Religious History at St Mary’s College, Strawberry Hill. His publications include James I (1993), Charles I (1998) and Cromwell’s Major□Generals: Godly Government during the English Revolution (2001).
Summary
Tracing the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book explains the major historical controversies surrounding the period.
