Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism

Author:   Patrick Collinson (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
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Author:   Patrick Collinson (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9781107606982


ISBN 10:   1107606985
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Preface Alexandra Walsham and John Morrill; 1. Introduction; 2. Beginnings; 3. Battle commences; 4. The 1580s: Whitgift, Hatton and the High Commission; 5. Martin Marprelate; 6. What Bancroft found, and didn't find, in the godly ministers' studies; 7. Out of the frying pan, into the fire and out again; 8. Prayer, fasting, and the world of spirits: the other face; 9. Possession, dispossession, fraud and polemics; 10. Richard Bancroft, Robert Cecil and the Jesuits: the Bishop and his Catholic friends; 11. Archbishop of Canterbury.

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'A work of formidable scholarship which explores the Puritan movement through the eyes of its most relentless opponent. Historians of the North will be particularly interested in Bancroft's dealings with successive archbishops of York.' Northern History 'This volume is part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History and is produced to a high standard with an index and footnotes. With Collinson's other writings, it is an essential tool for those interested in the puritanism of late Elizabethan England.' Congregational History Society Magazine 'Collinson portrays perceptively what Bancroft did in defending the Church of England.' Alen Boyer, The Seventeenth Century A work of formidable scholarship which explores the Puritan movement through the eyes of its most relentless opponent. Historians of the North will be particularly interested in Bancroft's dealings with successive archbishops of York. Northern History This volume is part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History and is produced to a high standard with an index and footnotes. With Collinson's other writings, it is an essential tool for those interested in the puritanism of late Elizabethan England. Congregational History Society Magazine Collinson portrays perceptively what Bancroft did in defending the Church of England. Alen Boyer, The Seventeenth Century


'A work of formidable scholarship which explores the Puritan movement through the eyes of its most relentless opponent. Historians of the North will be particularly interested in Bancroft's dealings with successive archbishops of York.' Northern History 'This volume is part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History and is produced to a high standard with an index and footnotes. With Collinson's other writings, it is an essential tool for those interested in the puritanism of late Elizabethan England.' Congregational History Society Magazine 'Collinson portrays perceptively what Bancroft did in defending the Church of England.' Alen Boyer, The Seventeenth Century


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Patrick Collinson CBE (1929–2011) was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge (1988–96) and a Fellow of Trinity College and the British Academy. The leading historian of sixteenth-century religion and politics of his generation, he was the author of many important books, notably The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967), The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625 (1982) and The Birthpangs of Protestant England (1988). He also published several collections of his essays, including Godly People (1983), Elizabethan Essays (1994), From Cranmer to Sancroft (2006) and This England (2011).

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