Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) - Softcover

Maltby, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521793874 ISBN 13: 9780521793872

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the outbreak of the Civil War. It provides a necessary corrective to our view of religion in that period through a serious exploration of the laypeople who conformed, out of conviction, to the Book of Common Prayer. These "prayer book Protestants" formed a significant part of the spectrum of society in Tudor and Stuart England, yet until now they have remained an almost completely uninvestigated group.

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Book Description

This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the the Civil War, providing a serious exploration of `prayer book Protestants', who until now have remained an almost completely uninvestigated group. 'E a remarkable book E the force of [Dr Maltby's] argument is inescapable. No historian of the Reformation, of the rise of Anglicanism, or of popular religion in the localities, can afford to neglect her work.'John Guy in The Church Times

Review

"This book is an original, provocative, and persuasive analysis of the character of the Church of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." Sewanee Theological Review

"This is an ambitious and intelligent study, which raises important questions about the `bedding-down' of the English Reformation, and the formation of confessional identities between the accession of Elizabeth and the outbreak of civil war." Peter Marshall, 16th Century Journal

"This book is an original, provocative, and persuasive analysis of the character of the Church of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In reading her book, Episcopalians will rediscover some of the reasons that The Book of Common Prayer in its many editions and revisions has been and continues to be so important to the life of the Episcopal Church and to the Anglican Communion." Sewanee Theological Review

"Maltby's exploration of the evidence for 'prayer book Protestants' between 1560 and 1640 is an important and welcome discussion." Catholic Historical Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521793874
• ISBN 13: 9780521793872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332