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Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
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Despite the importance of the subject to contemporaries, this is
the first monograph to look at the institution of godparenthood in
early modern English society. Utilising a wealth of hitherto
largely neglected primary source data, this work explores
godparenthood, using it as a framework to illuminate wider issues
of spiritual kinship and theological change. It has become
increasingly common for general studies of family and religious
life in pre-industrial England to make reference to the spiritual
kinship evident in the institution of godparenthood. However,
although there have been a number of important studies of the
impact of the institution in other periods, this is the first
detailed monograph devoted to the subject in early modern England.
This study is possible due to the survival, contrary to many
expectations, of relatively large numbers of parish registers that
recorded the identities of godparents in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. By utilising this hitherto largely neglected
data, in conjunction with evidence gleaned from over 20,000 Wills
and numerous other biographical, legal and theological sources,
Coster has been able to explore fully the institution of
godparenthood and the role it played in society. This book takes
the opportunity to study an institution which interacted with a
range of social and cultural factors, and to assess the nature of
these elements within early modern English society. It also allows
the findings of such an investigation to be compared with the
assumptions that have been made about the fortunes of the
institution in the context of a changing European society. The
recent historiography of religion in this period has focused
attention on popular elements of religious practice, and stressed
the conservatism of a society faced with dramatic theological and
ritual change. In this context a study of godparenthood can make a
contribution to understanding how religious change occurred and the
ways in which popular religious practice was affected.
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