Puritanism in Tudor England
[edited by] H.C. Porter
Bok · Engelsk · 1970
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| Utgitt | London : Macmillan , 1970
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| Omfang | XV, 311 s. : diagr.
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| Opplysninger | This book presents a collection of twenty-seven 16th-century documents, printed for the most part in full. Nine of them are from manuscript; four are from Tudor books not since reprinted; and most of the rest are not readily available elsewhere. They illustrate - with an editorial introduction and fourteen linking editorial essays - the development and variety of radical protestantism in Tudor England, the continuity of the dissenting experience. The earliest piece is a 1525 Cambridge sermon by Robert Barnes. The reign of Edward VI is illustrated by a 1549 essay of Thomas Cranmer, by a Cambridge letter of Martin Bucer to John Calvin, and by three letters to England by Calvin himself. Two documents then give an insight into the separatist tradition (the most interesting strand of puritanism): an account of a 1567 London conventicle, and the 1583 autobiography of Robert Browne, 'the father of English congregationalism'. John Field's 1572 'View of Popish Abuses' shows the more conventional puritan mind of the late 1560's and early 1570's. Four pieces are grouped round the theme of the puritans and Parliament - including Peter Wentworth's 1576 speech to the House of Commons. There is a section on the puritans and education including a new translation of the statutes of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. An extract from a 1589 Marprelate tract, the beginning of the 1587 monthly journal of the reverend Richard Rogers in Essex, and a group of puritan pleas of the mid-1580's (one of them in verse) show the variety of the puritan experience in that decade. Chapter 8 of the preface to Richard Hooker's 'The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity' (1593) is given, as a brilliant analysis of the sectarian mind. The final section is devoted to William Perkins (1458-1603): an editorial preface, ten letters, and a fascinating chart of balloons setting out the Calvinist interpretation of Salvation and Damnation
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| ISBN | 0-333-08116-1
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