The Post-Reformation: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714

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Pearson Longman, 2006 - 387 sidor

The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and the search for an acceptable religious settlement, which stimulated the Pilgrim Fathers to leave to settle America, the Popish plot and the Glorious Revolution in which James II was kicked off the throne.

This book looks at both the private aspects of human beliefs and practices and also institutional religion, investigating the growing competition between rival versions of Christianity and the growing expectation that individuals should be allowed to worship as they saw fit.

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Om författaren (2006)

John Spurr is Professor of History at the University of Swansea. He is the author of "The ""Restoration of The ""Church ""of ""England ""1646-1689 "(Yale U.P., 1991), "English Puritanism, 1603-1689" (Palgrave, 1998), and "England ""in the 1670s: 'This Masqerading Age'"(Blackwell, 2000). He has edited volume 1 (1677-85) of the forthcoming "Roger Morrice's Entring Book," the last great unpublished seventeenth-century diary. He is at work on a history of oaths and swearing in the early modern period.

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