Religion, politics and the public sphere, 1500-1850 : essays in honour of Peter Lake / edited by David Como and Michael Questier

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Como, David R., 1970- editor.

Questier, Michael C., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Studies in early modern cultural, political and social history

Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History ; v.53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation.

Counter-Reformation.

Christianity and politics--History.

Christianity and politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2025.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Note on the Text

Introduction

Part I: Reformation, Rivalry and Remembrance

1 The Victorian Invention of Anglicanism and its Reception

2 The Casket Letters: Controversy and Conspiracy

3 The Battle of Adderley Aisle and Family Chapels in Post-Reformation England

Part II: Catholics, Puritans and Conformists

4 'Trapped in the Mental World of Robert Parsons': Religious Politics, Blame and the Essex Rising of 1601

5 The Strange Case of the Boy of Bilson: Catholics, Puritans, Exorcists and Politics in Post-Reformation England

6 Bishop Lewes Bayly

Prelate as Puritan?

7 Growing Opposition? Puritan Cheshire in Laudian London: The Diary of Samuel Torshell 1638-9

Part III: Publics and the Drama of Politics in the Post-Reformation

8 Weighed in a Balance: Strategising Public Politics in Anglo-Dutch Affairs, 1617-19

9 At the Heart of a Knot of Villainy: Dr Lambe and the Purbeck Affair

10 The Literary Lake

Part IV: Structures of Post-Revolutionary Politics

11 The Nature of 'the Powers that Be': Politico-Religious Thought 1637-53 and its Antecedents

12 'Yet God is Good to Israel': Nehemiah Wallington Reads (and Writes) the News

13 John Lilburne, the People and the English Revolution

14 Revisionism, Partisanship and the Structure of Early Modern British Imperial Culture

Bibliography of Peter Lake's Works

Index

Tabula Gratulatoria

Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Como, David R. Religion, Politics and the Public Sphere, 1500-1850

ISBN:

9781805435273

1805435272

Publisher Number:

40032629007

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