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Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England (Paperback, New)
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Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England (Paperback, New)
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Historians are usually more intrigued by what was than by what
might have been. It is not surprising, then, that a relatively tame
Elizabethan puritanism has been deposited within the mainstream of
English Protestantism while some radical schemes, or what Peter
Kaufman refers to as the what might have been, are more or less
overlooked. Thinking of the Laity features fresh evidence that the
advocates of broadly participatory parish regimes publicly
confronted their critics. It collects shards of the expectations
and regrets that survive in a few petitions, in manuscript records
of university controversy, and in the recollections of proponents
of lay and local control. Kaufman argues that to assemble these
fragments is to recover thinking about the laity that gave
revolutionary force to late Tudor puritanism. Elizabethan
reformers, especially the most outspoken puritans, accused English
Catholics of "expound[ing] ecclesia to be a state opposite unto,
and severed from the laitie." Kaufman concentrates on the identity
and aspirations of these reformers who sought to remedy the
severing of the church from its people by instituting the
extraordinarily controversial solution of lay involvement in parish
elections and in disciplining delinquents. Opponents of the
reformers perceived the participatory initiatives as a threat to
order and clerical authority, and opposed experiments with
laicization, democratization, and local control. By the late 1580s
the Puritans had lost their fight, but the debate was both lively
and public, and as Kaufman deftly and persuasively reminds us, the
roads not taken are still important parts of the historic
landscape. Thinking of the Laity adds to our understanding of the
policy debates closely associated with the origins of puritanism,
presbyterianism, and congregationalism. This book will be essential
reading for people interested in the history of early modern
England and in the progress of sixteenth-century religious reform.
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