Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

ISBN-13: 9781107606982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 252 str.

Patrick Collinson

Opis

A major study of the Elizabethan Puritan movement, as seen through the eyes of its most determined opponent, Richard Bancroft.

Recenzje

'Collinson portrays perceptively what Bancroft did in defending the Church of England.' Alen Boyer, The Seventeenth Century

Spis treści

Preface Alexandra Walsham and John Morrill; 1. Introduction; 2. Beginnings; 3. Battle commences; 4. The 1580s: Whitgift, Hatton and the High Commission; 5. Martin Marprelate; 6. What Bancroft found, and didn't find, in the godly ministers' studies; 7. Out of the frying pan, into the fire and out again; 8. Prayer, fasting, and the world of spirits: the other face; 9. Possession, dispossession, fraud and polemics; 10. Richard Bancroft, Robert Cecil and the Jesuits: the Bishop and his Catholic friends; 11. Archbishop of Canterbury.