Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c.1560-1660 [Hardcover]

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.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.Lancelot Andrewes and the Myth of Anglicanism - Nicholas TyackeDemons, Deviance and Defiance: John Darrell and the Politics of Exorcism in late Elizabethan England - Thomas S. FreemanPuritans, Predestination and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Early Seventeenth-Century England - David ComoFrom Temple to Synagogue: 'Old Conformity' in the 1640s-1650s and the Case of Christopher Harvey - Judith D MaltbyClerical Conformity from Whitgift to Laud - Kenneth FinchamArchbishop Richard Neile Revisited through Discussion of Concepts of 'Orthodoxy' and 'Conformity' - Andrew FosterMovinglÓ;