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England's second reformation : the battle for the Church of England, 1625-1662 / Anthony Milton.

Van Pelt - Yarnall Collection BX5075 .M55 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Milton, Anthony, author.
Contributor:
Charlton Yarnall Fund.
Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Church of England--History--17th century.
Church of England.
History.
England--Church history--17th century.
England.
Church history.
Genre:
Church history.
History.
Physical Description:
xiv, 528 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Summary:
England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations. Rather than seeing the Civil War years as a destructive aberration, Anthony Milton demonstrates how they were integral to (and indeed the climax of) the Church of England's early history. All religious groups - parliamentarian and royalist alike - envisaged changes to the pre-war church, and all were forced to adapt their religious ideas and practices in response to the tumultuous events. Similarly, all saw themselves and their preferred reforms as standing in continuity with the Church's earlier history. By viewing this as a revolutionary 'second Reformation', which necessarily involved everyone and forced them to reconsider what the established church was and how its past should be understood, Milton presents a compelling case for rethinking England's religious history.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: A Note on Terminology
1. An Unresolved Reformation
`Quasi-Lex': Official and Semi-official Formularies
Unresolved Issues
2. Situating the Laudian Reformation
The Elizabethan and Jacobean Church: Corruptions and Abuses
The Elizabethan Settlement
The Henrician and Edwardian Reformations
The Medieval Church
Antiquity
The Laudians and Change
3. Responses to the Laudian Reformation
Opponents of Laudianism: People and Formats
Conservative Anti-Laudianism
Radical Anti-Laudianism
Burton, Bastwick and Prynne in 1637
The Scots
The Short Parliament and the Etcetera Oath
4. The Abortive Reformation, 1640-1642
De-Laudianization
Liturgy and Ceremonies
Church Government
The Reformation of Ecclesiastical Abuses
Parliament and Convocation
Abortive Reformation and the Run-up to War
5. The End of Episcopalian Reformation
Parliament and Lay Control
`Radical' Voices
Language and Rhetoric
The Conservative Reaction
Conclusion
6. Reformation by Negotiation
Opening Exchanges, 1642-1644
Uxbridge
The Road to Newport
5-1648
The Newport Treaty
7. The Westminster Reformation and the Parliamentarian Church of England
The Westminster Reformation
Situating the Parliamentarian Church of England
8. The Royalist Church of England, 1642-1649
The Abortive Reformation Continued?
Divisions and Qualifications
Wartime Themes
Royalist Religion under Parliament, 1646-1649
9. Alternative Reformations, 1649-1653
`Radical' Visions
The Reformation of 1649-1653
The Westminster Reformation and the Presbyterians, 1649-1653
Episcopalians and Their Alternatives
10. The Cromwellian Church
A Cromwellian Church of England?
The Half-life of the Westminster Reformation
The Cromwellian Church on the Ground
Situating the Cromwellian Church
11. Episcopalian Royalism in the 1650s
The `New Prelatical Recusants'?
Visions of the Church of England
Further Reformation?
12. Failed Reformations, 1659-1661
Alternative Reformations, 1659-1660
The Abortive Reformation Revisited, 1659-1661
13. The End of Comprehensive Reformation and the Caroline Settlement
The Episcopalian Reaction
Presbyterian Difficulties
The Caroline Settlement.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.
Other Format:
Online version: Milton, Anthony. England's second Reformation.
ISBN:
9781107196452
1107196450
9781316647295
1316647293
OCLC:
1246624577
Publisher Number:
99989818557

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