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'...a masterly study.' Alister McGrath, Theological Book Review
'...a splendid read.' J.J.Scarisbrick, TLS '...profound, witty...of
immense value.' David Loades, History Today Historians have always
known that the English Reformation was more than a simple change of
religious belief and practice. It altered the political
constitution and, according to Max Weber, the attitudes and motives
which governed the getting and investment of wealth, facilitating
the rise of capitalism and industrialisation. This book
investigates further implications of the transformative religious
changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the nation,
the town, the family, and for their culture.
Some of the sons and grandsons of the English Reformation, the
'hotter sort', were known to their contemporaries as 'puritans',
but they called themselves 'the godly'. This career-spanning
collection of essays by Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of
Modern History at Cambridge University, deals with numerous aspects
of the religious culture of post-Reformation England and its
implications for the politics, mentality, and social relations of
the Elizabethans and Jacobeans.
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church
puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical
organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions;
of the quest for 'a further reformation'. It tells the fascinating
story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate
destruction.
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church
puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical
organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions;
of the quest for 'a further reformation'. It tells the fascinating
story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate
destruction.
Emmanuel's history encompasses Puritanism and links with Pilgrim
Fathers, and continuing involvement in theological debate.
Discussion of college finances on scale never previously attempted
in Oxbridge college history. Emmanuel College was founded by the
royal minister Sir Walter Mildmay in 1584; he chose a leading
moderate puritan, Laurence Chaderton, as first Master, and aimed to
educate godly ministers and good preachers. This history presents
its development from these beginnings to the present day. They show
how the college's original puritan character gave way to the
liberal views of the Cambridge Platonists and the high
churchmanship of William Sancroft, instrumental in bringing
Christopher Wren to design the new college chapel; and how during
the nineteenth century, as with other Cambridge colleges, it
expanded in numbers and disciplines, becoming once again a notable
centre of theology,and for the first time the home of serious
teaching in the natural sciences. It has had a role in all the
movements of the twentieth century which have made Cambridge what
it is today: in learning, teaching, sport, and social life. A
special feature of the book is the substantial account of the
history of the college estates and finances, on a scale never
before attempted for an Oxbridge college. Dr SARAH BENDALLis Fellow
Librarian and Archivistof Merton College, Oxford; CHRISTOPHER
BROOKE is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History,
University of Cambridge; PATRICK COLLINSONis Professor Emeritus of
Modern History at the University of Cambridge.
Patrick Collinson was one of Britain's foremost early modern
historians. This volume collects together a number of his most
interesting and least easily accessible essays with a thoughtful
introduction written specifically for this book. This England is a
celebration of 'Englishness' in the sixteenth century. It explores
the growing conviction of 'Englishness' through the rapidly
developing English language; the reinforcement of cultural
nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the national
and international situation of England at a time of acute national
catastrophe; and of Queen Elizabeth I, the last of her line,
remaining unmarried, refusing to even discuss the succession to her
throne. Introducing students of the period to an aspect of history
largely neglected in the current vogue for histories of the Tudors,
Collinson investigates the rising role of English, of England's
God-centredness, before focusing on the role of Elizabethans as
citizens rather than mere subjects. It responds to a demand for a
history which is no less social than political, and investigates
what it meant to be a citizen of early modern England, living
through the 1570s and 1580s. -- .
'This England' is a celebration of 'Englishness' in the sixteenth
century, explores the growing conviction of 'Englishness' through
the rapidly developing English language; the reinforcement of
cultural nationalism as a result of the Protestant Reformation; the
national and international situation of England at a time of acute
national catastrophe; and of Queen Elizabeth 1, the last of her
line, remaining unmarried, refusing to even discuss the succession
to her throne. Introducing students of the period to an aspect of
history largely neglected in the current vogue for histories of the
Tudors, Collinson investigates the rising role of English, of
England's God-centredness, before focusing on the role of
Elizabethans as citizens rather than mere subjects. It responds to
a demand for a history which is no less social than political,
investigates what it meant to be a citizen of England, living
through the 1570's and 1580's. -- .
This volume provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of the transformation of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. Six thematic chapters explore the changes in the English monarchical polity, ranging widely to consider the new relationships between the different parts of the British Isles and the establishment of a national, royal, and protestant church. Separate chapters consider Britain's overseas role; the economy and society; and literary and cultural development in this period which felt the impact of the English Bible and Shakespeare.
This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan
movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless
opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It
analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability
of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical
presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's
polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting
important new light on religious politics and culture. Focussing on
the ways in which anti-Puritanism interacted with Puritanism, it
also illuminates the process by which religious identities were
forged in the early modern era. The final book of Patrick
Collinson, the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth-century England,
this is the culmination of a lifetime of seminal work on the
English Reformation and its ramifications.
This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan
movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless
opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It
analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability
of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical
presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's
polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting
important new light on religious politics and culture. Focussing on
the ways in which anti-Puritanism interacted with Puritanism, it
also illuminates the process by which religious identities were
forged in the early modern era. The final book of Patrick
Collinson, the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth-century England,
this is the culmination of a lifetime of seminal work on the
English Reformation and its ramifications.
Three leading scholars examine one of the oldest professorships, the Lady Margaret's Chair of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Graham Stanton, current holder, writes an introduction considering theology at Cambridge before 1502 and after 1649. In two subsequent chapters (delivered as lectures at an event in March 2002 to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the Chair), Richard Rex offers an account of the establishment of the Professorship in 1502 and Patrick Collinson addresses the extent to which early incumbents were involved in the religious and political turmoil of the era.
This investigation of the transformative religious changes of the
16th and 17th centuries in England, arise from Patrick Collinson's
1986 Anstey Memorial Lectures at the University of Kent. The book
examines the effects of these changes on the nation, the town and
family and their culture. It is about the birth of a new and in
some ways different England, the one that we know and about the
painful complications attending that birth, including the English
Civil War. It looks at the implications of the Protestant
Reformation for English national self-consciousness.;Patrick
Collinson is author of "The Elizabethan Puritan Movement",
"Archbishop Grindal 1519-1583", "The Religion of Protestants" and
"Godly People - Essays in English Protestantism and Puritanism".
'...a masterly study.' Alister McGrath, Theological Book Review
'...a splendid read.' J.J.Scarisbrick, TLS '...profound, witty...of
immense value.' David Loades, History Today Historians have always
known that the English Reformation was more than a simple change of
religious belief and practice. It altered the political
constitution and, according to Max Weber, the attitudes and motives
which governed the getting and investment of wealth, facilitating
the rise of capitalism and industrialisation. This book
investigates further implications of the transformative religious
changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the nation,
the town, the family, and for their culture.
The definitive guide to the development of early Roman liturgy by
one of the twentieth century's great liturgical scholars. The
liturgy which developed at Rome during the early centuries of the
Christian era was to establish the pattern for religious observance
in the Latin West from the sixth century to the twentieth. Yet, for
a variety of reasons, the origins and early development of this
liturgy are far from clear. Evidence must be teased out of the
various incidental references to be found in the writings of the
early Church Fathers; Hippolytus, Cyprian, Ambrose, Augustineand
ultimately Gregory the Great. In this book the late G.G. Willis
draws on a lifetime's intimate knowledge of the liturgical evidence
for early Roman practice in order to present a refreshingly clear
guide to the early Roman liturgy - a subject for which there exists
no accessible introduction in English. He provides a new synthesis
of the most significant developments in the form of the Roman mass,
calendar, episcopal services, rites of baptism andordination up to
the time of Gregory the Great (590-604).
This volume provides a sophisticated yet accessible account of the transformation of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. Six thematic chapters explore the changes in the English monarchical polity, ranging widely to consider the new relationships between the different parts of the British Isles and the establishment of a national, royal, and protestant church. Separate chapters consider Britain's overseas role; the economy and society; and the literary and cultural development in this period which felt the impact of the English Bible and Shakespeare.
Insight into the minds and methods of 'godly' ministers - early
nonconformists - who sought to modify the Elizabethan settlement of
religion. At the heart of Elizabeth I's reign, a secret conference
of clergymen met in and around Dedham, Essex, on a monthly basis in
order to discuss matters of local and national interest. Their
collected papers, a unique survival from the clandestine world of
early English nonconformity, are here printed in full for the first
time, together with a hitherto unpublished narrative by the Suffolk
minister, Thomas Rogers, which throws a flood of light on similar,
ifmore public, clerical activity in and around Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk, during the same period. Taken together, the two texts
provide an unrivalled insight into the minds and the methods of
that network of 'godly' ministers whose professed aim was to modify
the strict provisions of the Elizabethan settlement of religion,
both by ceaseless lobbying and by practical example. The editors'
introduction accordingly emphasizes the complex nature of the
English protestant tradition between the Tudor mid-century and the
accession of James I, as well as attempting to plot the
politico-ecclesiastical developments of the 1580s in some detail. A
comprehensive biographical register of the members of the Dedham
conference, of the Bury St Edmunds lecturers, and of many other
important names mentioned in the texts, completes the volume.
PATRICK COLLINSON is Regius Professor of Modern History, University
of Cambridge;JOHN CRAIG is associate professor at Simon Fraser
University; BRETT USHER is an expert on Elizabethan clergy.
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
Patrick Collinson is the leading historian of English religion in
the years after the Reformation. The topics covered by this
collection of essays ranges from Thomas Cranmer, who was burnt at
the stake after repeated recantations in 1556, to William Sancroft,
the only other post-Reformation archbishop of Canterbury to have
been deprived of office. Patrick Collinson's work explores the
complex interactions between the inclusive and exclusive tendencies
in English Protestantism, focusing both on famous figures, such as
John Foxe and Richard Hooker, and on the individual reactions of
lesser figures to the religious challenges of the time. Two themes
throughout are the importance of the Bible and the emergence of
Puritanism inside the Church of England.
Patrick Collinson is the leading historian of English religion in
the years after the Reformation. The topics covered by this
collection of essays ranges from Thomas Cranmer, who was burnt at
the stake after repeated recantations in 1556, to William Sancroft,
the only other post-Reformation archbishop of Canterbury to have
been deprived of office. Patrick Collinson's work explores the
complex interactions between the inclusive and exclusive tendencies
in English Protestantism, focusing both on famous figures, such as
John Foxe and Richard Hooker, and on the individual reactions of
lesser figures to the religious challenges of the time. Two themes
throughout are the importance of the Bible and the emergence of
Puritanism inside the Church of England.
The age of Elizabeth I continues to exercise a fascination
unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the
leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan figures,
including the queen herself, remain enigmatic. In Elizabethans
Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth
and of Shakespeare, as well as redrawing the main features of the
political and religious structure of the reign. He understands the
characters of the period, whether John Foxe the martyrologist or
Andrew Perne, the notorious Cambridge turncoat, as individuals and
is also sensitive to the attitudes and beliefs of the day. Social
history is not history with the politics left out, nor can
religious history be written without an understanding of its
political and social context. This is the approach that Patrick
Collinson advocates and practises in Elizabethans.
The age of Elizabeth I exercises a fascination unmatched by other
periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem
familiar, many Elizabethan personalities, including the queen
herself, remain enigmatic; their attitudes to life, politics and
religion often difficult to comprehend. Patrick Collinson redraws
the main features of the political and religious struggle of the
reign. In engaging with the virgin queen herself he tackles the old
conundrum: was she a religious woman? He also investigates the no
less inscrutable religious position adopted by the by the notorious
turncoat, Andrew Perne, the reliability as a historian of the
martyrologist John Foxe (whose religion is in no doubt) and the
religious environment which shaped William Shakespeare.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1979.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1977.
A short but powerful study of one of the great watersheds of
European history Although for generations the Reformation was
regarded as a major turning point in European history, in recent
years its significance has been downgraded. But in this book
Professor Collinson sets out to restore a sense of the Reformation
as a momentous historical event. He brilliantly explores the
complexities and corruption of the late-medieval Catholic Church -
and the Europe-wide reform movement which produced Lutherans,
Calvinists, Huguenots, Presbyterians and the Church of England, and
which profoundly shaped the identity of the emerging nation-states
of Europe.
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