This study presents the teachings - and in some cases the portraits - of some "hidden" 17th-century divines, the ancestors of Anglicanism who have been removed and hidden away. It views them working within the parameters of a broadly common reformed theology, transcended and aggravated by mutual national distrust, different polities and different liturgical practices. Contents of the work include the sacramental legacy of the 16th-century Reformation, the Long Parliament to the death of Cromwell, and the Restoration.

This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established images of liturgy s past. Based on papers presented at the 2014 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference, "Liturgy s Imagined Past/s" seeks to invigorate discussion of methodologies and materials in contemporary writings on liturgy s pasts and to resource such writing at a point in time when formidable questions are being...