Archbishop Grindal, 1519-1583
Title | Archbishop Grindal, 1519-1583 PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Collinson |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2021-01-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520331796 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
The Religion of Protestants
Title | The Religion of Protestants PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Collinson |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Religion of Protestants The Church in English Society 1559-1625 (Ford Lectures, 1979)
Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Title | Broken Idols of the English Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Aston |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1994 |
Release | 2015-11-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316060470 |
Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.
English Puritanism
Title | English Puritanism PDF eBook |
Author | John Spurr |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 1998-08-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1349268542 |
The Puritans of seventeenth century England have been blamed for everything from the English civil war to the rise of capitalism. But who were the Puritans of Stuart England? Were they apostles of liberty, who fled from persecution to the New World? Or were they intolerant fanatics, intent on bringing godliness to Stuart England? This study provides a clear narrative of the rise and fall of the Puritans across the troubled seventeenth century. Their story is placed in context by analytical chapters, which describe what the Puritans believed and how they organised their religious and social life. Quoting many contemporary sources, including diaries, plays and sermons, this is a vivid and comprehensible account, drawing on the most recent scholarship. Readers will find this book an indispensable guide, not only to the religious history of seventeenth century England, but also to its political and social history.
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism
Title | Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Collinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2013-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107311047 |
This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting important new light on religious politics and culture. Focussing on the ways in which anti-Puritanism interacted with Puritanism, it also illuminates the process by which religious identities were forged in the early modern era. The final book of Patrick Collinson, the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth-century England, this is the culmination of a lifetime of seminal work on the English Reformation and its ramifications.
The Mediaeval Hospitals of England
Title | The Mediaeval Hospitals of England PDF eBook |
Author | Rotha Mary Clay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Charities |
ISBN |
Lollards in the English Reformation
Title | Lollards in the English Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Royal |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2020-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526128829 |
This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants. It focuses on the work of John Foxe, whose influential Acts and Monuments (1563) reoriented the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects, portraying them as Protestants’ ideological forebears. It is a scholarly mainstay that Foxe edited radical lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. But this book offers a strong corrective to the argument, revealing that the subversive material present in Foxe’s text allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions. The book argues that the same lollards who were used to strengthen the English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth.