Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the outbreak of the Civil War. It provides a necessary corrective to our view of religion in the period by a serious exploration of the laity who conformed, out of conviction, to the Book of Common Prayer. Through the use of church court records and parliamentary petitions, the views of lay people are examined - those who were neither 'puritan' nor 'Laudian', yet were committed to the reformed liturgy and episcopacy out of sincere belief, and not as a matter of political expediency.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction: the good, the bad, and the godly? The laity and the established church; 2. Conformity and the church courts, c. 1570-1642; 3. The rhetoric of conformity, c. 1640-1642; 4. Sir Thomas Aston and the campaign for the established church, c. 1640-1642; 5. Parishioners, petitions, and the Prayer Book in the 1640s; 6. Conclusion: laity, clergy, and conformity in post-Reformation England; Appendix 1. Petitions for the Book of Common Prayer and episcopacy, 1640-1642; Appendix 2. Subscribing Cheshire parishes and townships, 1641; Appendix 3. Five subscribing Cheshire communities; Bibliography.

Summary

'… a remarkable book … the force of [Dr Maltby's] argument is inescapable. No historian of the Reformation, of the rise of Anglicanism, or of popular religion in the localities, can afford to neglect her work.' John Guy,The Church Times

Product details

• Authors: Judith Maltby, Maltby Judith
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.1998
• EAN: 9780521453134
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45313-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w illus., Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, RELIGION / Christianity / Episcopalian, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Christianity, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Anglican and Episcopalian Churches, Anglican & Episcopalian Churches, Church of England, Prayers and liturgical material