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The correspondence of William Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from
1633 to 1645, provides revealing insights into his mind, methods
and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel
the church and the clerical estatein the three kingdoms. William
Laud, archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 to 1645, is a central
figure in the history of seventeenth-century Britain. Laud's
correspondence provides revealing insights into his mind, methods
and activities, especially in the 1630s, as he sought to remodel
the church and the clerical estate in the three kingdoms. The
Further Correspondence of William Laud prints 223 letters, drawn
from thirty-eight libraries and archives, which were not included
in the nineteenth-century edition of his Works. It has real
importance for our perception of Laud and the early Stuart church,
greatly increasing the number of his letters for the 1620s and
providing significant new information, such as the three earliest
letters to his closest political ally, Thomas Wentworth, in 1630.
Other correspondents include politicians such as Sir John Coke and
Lord Keeper Coventry, the diplomat Sir William Boswell, numerous
heads of colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge, and churchmen such
as Bishops John Bridgeman of Chester and John Bramhall of Derry as
well as Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople. A lengthy
introduction assesses the waysin which these letters deepen our
knowledge, broaden our understanding and refine our views of Laud's
various roles, as chief ecclesiastical counsellor to Charles I,
court politician and administrator, chancellor of Oxford
University, and overseer of religious reformation in the kingdoms
of England, Scotland and Ireland. An appendix lists all of Laud's
correspondence in chronological order. Collectively, the letters
attest to his extraordinary energy andtireless commitment to reform
and point to the indelible impact that Laud made on his
contemporaries. KENNETH FINCHAM is Professor of Early Modern
History at the University of Kent. He has written extensively on
religion and politics in early modern Britain, including two
monographs, Prelate as Pastor: the Episcopate of James I (1990)
and, with Nicholas Tyacke, Altars Restored: the Changing Face of
English Religious Worship 1547-c.1700 (2007); edited two
collections of essays, The Early Stuart Church 1603-1642 (1993)
and, with Peter Lake, Religious Politics in post-Reformation
England (2006); and edited two volumes of Articles and Injunctions
of the Early Stuart Church (1994-8) for the Church of England
Record Society.
New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English
revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern
British history. The nature of the seventeenth-century English
revolution remains one of the most contested of all historical
issues. Scholars are unable to agree on what caused it, when
precisely it happened, how significant it was in terms of
political, social, economic, and intellectual impact, or even
whether it merits being described as a "revolution" at all. Over
the past twenty years these debates have become more complex, but
also richer. This volume brings together new essays by a group of
leading scholars of the revolutionary period and will provide
readers with a provocative and stimulating introduction to current
research. All the essays engage with one or more of three themes
which lieat the heart of recent debate: the importance of the
connection between individuals and ideas; the power and influence
of religious ideas; and the most appropriate chronological context
for discussion of the revolution. STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in
the History of Early Modern England at the University of Durham.
GRANT TAPSELL is Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of
Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. Contributors:
Philip Baker, J. C. Davis, Kenneth Fincham, Rachel Foxley, Tim
Harris, Ethan H. Shagan, John Spurr, Grant Tapsell, Stephen Taylor,
Tim Wales, John Walter, Blair Worden
Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly
introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries,
covering a period from Elizabeth I to the Church's involvement in
homosexual law reform. This volume of the Church of England Record
Society, published in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the
foundation of Lambeth Palace Library, is a tribute to the value of
one of the world's great private libraries to the scholarly
community and its importance for the history of the Church of
England in particular. Thirteen historians, who have made
considerable use of the Library in their research, have selected
texts which together offer an illustration of the remarkable
resources preserved by the Library for the period from the
Reformation to the late twentieth century. A number of the
contributions draw on the papers of the archbishops of Canterbury
and bishops of London,which are among the most frequently used
collections. Others come from the main manuscript sequence,
including both materials originally deposited by Archbishop
Sancroft and a manuscript published with the help of the Friends of
Lambeth Palace Library in 2007. Another makes use of the riches to
the papers of the Lambeth Conferences. Each text is accompanied by
a substantial introduction, discussing its context and
significance, and a full scholarly apparatus. The themes covered in
the volume range from the famous dispute between Archbishop Grindal
and Queen Elizabeth I, through the administration of the Church by
Archbishop Laud and Archbishop Davidson's visit to the Western
Frontduring World War I, to involvement of the Church in homosexual
law reform.
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious
debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the
Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been
an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume,
by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the
important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation
to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures, the
relationship of theology and secular ideologies, and the Civil War.
Topics include Puritan networks and nomenclature in England and in
the New World; examinations of the changing theology of the Church
in the century after the Reformation; the evolving relationship of
art and protestantism; the providentialist thinking of Charles
I;the operation of the penal laws against Catholics; and
protestantism in the localities of Yorkshire and Norwich. KENNETH
FINCHAM is Reader in History at the University of Kent; Professor
PETER LAKE teaches in the Department of History at Princeton
University. Contributors: THOMAS COGSWELL, RICHARD CUST, PATRICK
COLLINSON, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER LAKE, SUSAN HARDMAN MOORE,
DIARMAID MACCULLOCH, ANTHONY MILTON, PAUL SEAVER, WILLIAM SHEILS
Texts expressing concerns and priorities of the church during the
reign of Charles I. `Sets a standard of excellence which will gain
the society a high reputation... Documents which have for much too
long been inaccessible to ecclesiastical and social historians, and
which they cannot afford to ignore.' JOURNAL OFECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY `An important sourcebook for research about early
seventeenth-century religious and social history.' TIMES LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT [Following on from the highly-praised first volume of
visitation articles, covering the years 1603-25] This selection of
articles and injunctions issued by archbishops, bishops,
archdeacons, and other ecclesiastical ordinaries in the early
Stuart church concentrates on the church of Charles I, from his
accession in 1625 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642. The
volume traces the impact of Laudian reforms as well as the
defensive reaction of the Church hierarchy in 1641-2. The range of
churchmanship included is broad, stretchingfrom the articles and
injunctions of Laudian enthusiasts such as bishops Wren and Montagu
to those issued by Calvinist episcopalians such as Hall and
Thornborough. The introduction places these texts in their
historical and historiographical contexts, and an appendix lists
all surviving sets of visitation articles for the years 1603-1642.
The volume will be a valuable work of reference for anyone
interested in the government and ideals of the early Stuartchurch.
Dr KENNETH FINCHAMis Senior Lecturer in History at the University
of Kent at Canterbury.
The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and
the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus
on what came to be regarded as orthodox. The different ways in
which people expressed `conformity' or `nonconformity' to the 1559
settlement of religion in the English church have generally been
treated separately by historians: Catholic recusancy and occasional
conformity; Protestant ministerial subscription to the canons and
articles of the Church of England; the innovations made by
avant-garde conformist clerics to the early Stuart Church; and
conformist support for the prayer book in the 1640s. This is the
first book to look across the board at what was politically
important about conformity, aiming to assess how different
attitudes to conformity affected what was regarded as orthodox or
true religion in the English Church: that is, the political and
cultural significance of the ways in which one could obey or
disobey the law governing the Church. The introduction places the
articles in the context of the recent historiography of the late
Tudor and early Stuart Church. PETER LAKE is Professor of History,
Princeton University; MICHAEL QUESTIER is Senior Research Fellow,
St Mary's Strawberry Hill. Contributors: ALEXANDRA WALSHAM, MICHAEL
QUESTIER, PAULINE CROFT, KENNETH FINCHAM, THOMAS FREEMAN, PETER
LAKE, ANDREW FOSTER, NICHOLAS TYACKE, DAVID COMO, JUDITH MALTBY.
`An invaluable source for ecclesiastical history... promises to be
a highly important record series.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW This
is the first of two volumes which reproduce manuscript and printed
documents for the years 1603-1642. The articles issued by
archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and others exercising
ecclesiastical jurisdiction have been frequently used by historians
as evidence of the priorities and concerns of church government,
but until now there has been no systematic examination of the
structure and contents of articles, nor the relationship between
sets issued bydifferent archbishops, bishops or archdeacons. These
two volumes attempt to fill this gap. Volume 1, centring on the
Church of James I, contains no less than sixty-six sets of
articles, printed either in full or in collated form and includes
injunctions or charges issued duringor after visitations. Volume 2
extends the same treatment to the Caroline Church up to the Civil
War. KENNETH FINCHAM is lecturer in history at the University of
Kent at Canterbury.
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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