Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales : From Resistance to Respectability

ISBN-13: 9780708320778 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 224 str.

Richard Allen

Opis

Quakerism has long fascinated historians and religious scholars, and Richard Allen s examination of the community s rise and fall in Wales holds a wealth of new insights. The prominent role played by women, the resilience of Quakers in the face of a variety of forms of official persecution, the ways that education, careers, and marriage were determined by a strict code of conduct, and the reasons for Quakerism s decline all come under consideration here. As the first scholarly analysis of Welsh Quakers, this book represents an important new contribution to our knowledge of the movement."