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The Family of Love in English Society, 1550-1630 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Family of Love in English Society, 1550-1630 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship,
the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch
mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate
contemporaries, and an association with extremism, subversion and
hypocrisy has endured. The author tracks the English Familists into
their houses, fields and places of work. Although members of the
Family were few in number and highly secretive, identification has
proved possible in contexts ranging from the court of Elizabeth I
to rural villages in Cambridgeshire. The author also examines the
distinctive way of life which was developed by Family members
within a wider society that, on the face of it, was hostile to
religious dissenters: one surprising conclusion is that most
English men and women seem to have possessed an impressive capacity
to tolerate known 'heretics' in their midst.
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