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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791736203321

Autore

Appleby David J

Titolo

Black Bartholomew's Day [[electronic resource] ] : preaching, polemic and restoration nonconformity / / David J. Appleby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-174-1

1-84779-445-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Disciplina

280.4094109032

Soggetti

Dissenters, Religious - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Christian union - England

Great Britain Church history 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The context o fRestoration nonconformity; 2. Preaching, audience and authority; 3. Scripture, historicism and the critique of authority; 4.The public circulation of the Bartholomean texts; 5. Polemical responses to Bartholomean preaching; 6. Epilogue; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662.It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centres centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black Bartholomew's Day r