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Altars Restored - The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700 (Hardcover)
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Altars Restored - The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700 (Hardcover)
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Altars are powerful symbols, fraught with meaning, but during the
early modern period they became a religious battleground. Attacked
by reformers in the mid-sixteenth century because of their
allegedly idolatrous associations with the Catholic sacrifice of
the mass, a hundred years later they served to divide Protestants
due to their re-introduction by Archbishop Laud and his associates
as part of a counter-reforming program. Moreover, having
subsequently been removed by the victorious puritans, they
gradually came back after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
This book explores these developments, over a 150 year period, and
recaptures the experience of the ordinary parishioner in this
crucial period of religious change. Far from being the passive
recipients of changes imposed from above, the laity are revealed as
actively engaged from the early days of the Reformation, as zealous
iconoclasts or their Catholic opponents -- a division later
translated into competing protestant views.
Altars Restored integrates the worlds of theological debate,
church politics and government, and parish practice and belief,
which are often studied in isolation from one another. It draws
from hitherto largely untapped sources, notably the surviving
artefactual evidence comprising communion tables and rails, fonts,
images in stained glass, paintings and plates, and examines the
riches of local parish records -- especially churchwardens'
accounts. The result is a richly textured study of religious change
at both local and national level.
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