The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725

ISBN-13: 9780198208204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 280 str.

T. A. Davies; Adrian Davies

Opis

The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social elite but what of Friends' relationships with others? By examining Quaker attitudes to neighbourliness, the family, the rites of passage, business, and other links, this lively and original study demonstrates that Quakers were not the marginal and isolated people as often portrayed by contemporaries and historians, and explores the their wider and significant impact upon early modern society.
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Recenzje

Adrian Davies has written an excellent local study on Quakerism. The research is impeccable, and early modern historians will have constant recourse to it for insights into the transition of a sect into a denomination ... Davies makes a balanced and valuable contribution to the debate on the social origins of Quakerism ... it is a book to which historians will constantly return for answers.

O autorze

BBC Journalist