Prayer Book And People In Elizabethan And Early Stuart England

Book Summary


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.

Book Details


Book Name Prayer Book And People In Elizabethan And Early Stuart England
Author Judith Maltby, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy
Publisher Cambridge University Press (Aug 2000)
ISBN 9780521793872
Pages 332
Language English
Price 2057
 
 

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