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 re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political orderThis book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England. -- .
By:
David Appleby Other:
Rebecca Mortimer Imprint: Manchester Univ. Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 386g ISBN:9780719087806 ISBN 10: 0719087805 Series:Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Pages: 272 Publication Date:02 July 2012 Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. The context of Restoration 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 -- .
David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham
Winner of Richard L. Greaves Award by the International John Bunyan Society 2010 (United States)
