Prayer book and people in Elizabethan and early Stuart England / Judith Maltby
2000, 1st paperback edition. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #389231
ISBN: 9780521793872
Physical description; 310 pp.: illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Contents;
1. Introduction: the good, the bad, and the godly? The laity and the established church -- 2. Conformity and the church courts, c. 1570-1642 -- 3. The rhetoric of conformity, c. 1640-1642 -- 4. Sir Thomas Aston and the campaign for the established church, c. 1640-1642 -- 5. Parishioners, petitions, and the Prayer Book in the 1640s -- 6. Conclusion: laity, clergy, and conformity in post-Reformation England -- App. 1. Petitions for the Book of Common Prayer and episcopacy, 1640-1642 -- App. 2. Subscribing Cheshire parishes and townships, 1641 -- App. 3. Five subscribing Cheshire communities. Subjects; Church of England History 16th century. Book of common prayer. Liturgy History and criticism.
Price: €40.00