Church and People in Interregnum Britain / edited by Fiona McCall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCall, Fiona, editor.

Series:

New historical perspectives.

New historical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Great Britain--Religion.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

London : University of London Press, 2021.

Summary:

The English Civil War was followed by a period of unprecedented religious tolerance and the spread of new religious ideas and practices. Britain experienced a period of so-called "Godly religious rule" and a breakdown of religious uniformity that was perceived as a threat to social order by some and a welcome innovation to others. The period of Godly religious rule has been significantly neglected by historians--we know remarkably little about religious organization or experience at a parochial level in the 1640s and 1650s. This volume addresses these issues by investigating important questions concerning the relationship between religion and society in the years between the first Civil War and the Restoration. How did ordinary people experience this period of dramatic upheaval? How did religious imperatives change and develop? Did people resist Godly imperatives?With its nuanced analysis of Cromwell's England, Church and People in Interregnum Britain will interest religious scholars, enthusiasts of military history, and public historians -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

Introduction : stability and flux : the church in the interregnum / Bernard Capp

The Administration of the Interregnum Church :

1. What happened in English and Welsh parishes c.1642-62? : a research agenda / Andrew Foster

2. 'Soe good and godly a worke' : the surveys of ecclesiastical livings and parochial reform during the English Revolution / Alex Craven

3. The ecclesiastical patronage of Oliver Cromwell, c.1654-60 / Rebecca Warren

The Clergy of the Commonwealth :

4. The impact of the landscape on the clergy of seventeenth-century Dorset / Trixie Gadd

5. The clergy of Sussex : the impact of change, 1635-65 / Helen M. Whittle

Enforcing Godly Ideals :

6. 'Breaching the laws of God and man' : secular prosecutions of religious offences in the interregnum parish, 1645-60 / Fiona McCall

7. Scandalous Ayr : parish-level continuities in 1650s Scotland / Alfred Johnson

Traditionalist Religions : Patterns of Persistence and Resistance :

8. Malignant parties : loyalist religion in southern England / Rosalind Johnson

9. 'God's vigilant watchmen' : the words of episcopalian clergy in Wales, 1646-60 / Sarah Ward Clavier

Remembering Godly Rule :

10. 'A crack'd mirror' : reflections on 'godly rule' in Warwickshire in 1662 / Maureen Harris.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.