Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England

New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.

New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.

The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures, the relationship of theology and secular ideologies, and the Civil War. Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of art and protestantism; the providentialist thinking of Charles I;the operation of the penal laws against Catholics; and protestantism in the localities of Yorkshire and Norwich.

KENNETH FINCHAM is Reader in History at the University of Kent; Professor PETER LAKE teaches in the Department of History at Princeton University.

Contributors: THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST, PATRICK COLLINSON, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER LAKE, SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE, DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, ANTHONY MILTON, PAUL SEAVER, WILLIAM SHEILS

Introduction - Peter Lake
Art and Iconoclasm in Early Modern England - Keith Thomas
The Latitude of the Church of England - Diarmaid MacCulloch
Joan of Contention: The Myth of the Female Pope in Early Modern England - Thomas Freeman
Anti-Puritanism: the Structure of a Prejudice - Peter Lake
The Fortunes of English Puritanism: an Elizabethan Perspective - Brett Usher
What's in a Name? Dudley Fenner and the Peculiarities of Puritan Nomenclature - Patrick Collinson
Puritan Preachers and their Patrons - Paul S Seaver
New England's Reformation: `Wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill, the Eies of All People are upon Us' - Susan Hardman Moore
`Anglicanism' by Stealth: the Career and Influence of John Overall - Anthony Milton
Destroyed for doing my Duty: Thomas Felton and the Penal Laws under Elizabeth and James I - Thomas Cogswell
Charles I and Providence - Richard P Cust
John Shawe and Edward Bowles: Civic Preachers at Peace and War - W J Sheils
Material Evidence: The Religious Legacy of the Interregnum at St George Tombland, Norwich - Kenneth Fincham