Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

Studies conformity to the Church of England after the Reformation.

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
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521453134
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45313-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 691 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History