Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales - From Resistance to Respectability

Informationen zum Autor Dr. Richard Allen is Lecturer in Early Modern and Celtic History! at Sunderland University. He is an authority on the Quaker movement and has contributed to books on the subject published by Ashgate and the University of Sydney Press. Klappentext Quakerism has long fascinated historians and religious scholars! and Richard Allen's examination of the community's rise and fall in Wales holds a wealth of new insights. The prominent role played by women! the resilience of Quakers in the face of a variety of forms of official persecution! the ways that education! careers! and marriage were determined by a strict code of conduct! and the reasons for Quakerism's decline all come under consideration here. As the first scholarly analysis of Welsh Quakers! this book represents an important new contribution to our knowledge of the movement. Zusammenfassung The Society of Friends (Quakers) originated in the turmoil of the Civil War years and Interregnum. Examining Friends in Wales! especially in Monmouthshire in the period 1654-1836! this book assesses the lives of Friends! notably how education! careers! and marriage! were determined by a code of conduct.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Allen, Richard C Allen, Richard C. Allen, Allen Richard
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2007
• EAN: 9780708320778
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2077-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Bangor History of Religion; University of Wales - Bangor H
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Wales, Modern, Resistance, to, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, Christianity, Communities, From, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), early, Respectability, Quaker