Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500-1850 - Essays in Honour of Peter Lake

An examination of the political, cultural and spiritual shock waves unleashed by the reformation and counter-reformation.

List of contents

Introduction
David Como and Michael Questier

Part I: Reformation, Rivalry and Remembrance

1. The Victorian Invention of Anglicanism and its Reception - Lori Anne Ferrell
2. The Casket Letters: Controversy and Conspiracy- Simon Adams
3. The Battle of Adderley Aisle and Family Chapels in Post-Reformation England - Richard Cust

Part II - Catholics, Puritans and Conformists

4. 'Trapped in the Mental World of Robert Parsons': Religious Politics, Blame and the Essex Rising of 1601 - Paul E. J. Hammer
5. The Strange Case of the Boy of Bilson: Catholics, Puritans, Exorcists and Politics in Post-Reformation England - Michael Questier
6. Bishop Lewes Bayly - Prelate as Puritan? - Kenneth Fincham
7. Growing Opposition? Puritan Cheshire in Laudian London: the Diary of Samuel Torshell 1638-1639 - Anthony Milton

PART III - Publics and the Drama of Politics in the Post-Reformation

8. Weighed in a Balance: Strategizing Public Politics in Anglo-Dutch Affairs, 1617-1619 - Jason Peacey
9. At the Heart of a Knot of Villainy: Dr Lambe and the Purbeck Affair- Thomas Cogswell
10. The Literary Lake - Nigel Smith

Part IV - Structures of Post-Revolutionary Politics

11. The Nature of 'the Powers that Be': Politico-Religious Thought 1637-1653 and its Antecedents - Nicholas Tyacke
12. 'Yet God is Good to Israel': Nehemiah Wallington Reads (and Writes) the News - Ann Hughes
13. John Lilburne, the People and the English Revolution - Michael Braddick
14. Revisionism, Partisanship and the Structure of Early Modern British Imperial Culture - Steve Pincus

Bibliography of Peter Lake's Works
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria

About the author

DAVID R. COMO is a professor of early modern history at Stanford University.

MICHAEL QUESTIER is Honorary Chair, Centre for Catholic Studies, Department of Theology, Durham University, UK.

Summary

An examination of the political, cultural and spiritual shock waves unleashed by the reformation and counter-reformation.

Product details

• Assisted by: David R Como (Editor), David R. Como (Editor), Professor David R. (Customer) Como (Editor), Michael Questier (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781837652433
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-243-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 744 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works