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'Settling the Peace of the Church' - 1662 Revisited (Hardcover)
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'Settling the Peace of the Church' - 1662 Revisited (Hardcover)
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The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent 'ejections' on 24th
August (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with
its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most
significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history.
Intended, in its own words, 'to settle the peace of the church' by
banishing dissent and outlawing Puritan opinion it instead led to
penal religious legislation and persecution, vituperative
controversy, and repeated attempts to diversify the religious life
of the nation until, with the Toleration Act of 1689, its
aspiration was finally abandoned and the freedom of the individual
conscience and the right to dissent were, within limits, legally
recognised. Bartholomew Day was hence, unintentionally but
momentously, the first step towards today's pluralist and
multicultural society. This volume brings together nine original
essays which on the basis of new research examine afresh the nature
and occasion of the Act, its repercussions and consequences and the
competing ways in which its effects were shaped in public memory. A
substantial introduction sets out the historical context. The
result is an interdisciplinary volume which avoids partisanship to
engage with episcopalian, nonconformist, and separatist
perspectives; it understands 'English' history as part of 'British'
history, taking in the Scottish and Irish experience; it recognises
the importance of European and transatlantic relations by including
the Netherlands and New England in its scope; and it engages with
literary history in its discussions of the memorialisation of these
events in autobiography, memoirs, and historiography. This
collection constitutes the most wide-ranging and sustained
discussion of this episode for fifty years.
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