Getting Along? : Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W. J. Sheils.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Supping with Satan's Disciples: Spiritual and Secular Sociability in Post-Reformation England -- 2 Confessionalisation and Community in the Burial of English Catholics, c.1570-1700 -- 3 Fissures in the Bedrock: Parishes, Chapels, Parishioners and Chaplains in Pre-Reformation England -- 4 Clergy, Laity and Ecclesiastical Discipline in Elizabethan Yorkshire Parishes -- 5 Reading Libels in Early Seventeenth-Century Northamptonshire -- 6 'For the lacke of true history': Polemic, Conversion and Church History in Elizabethan England -- 7 Putting the Politics of Conscience on the Public Stage in Sir John Oldcastle, part I -- 8 'When he was in France he was a Papist and when he was in England … he was a Protestant' -- 9 A Yorkshireman in the Bastille: John Harwood and the Quaker Mission to Paris -- 10 'Papists of the New Model': the English Mission and the Shadow of Blacklow -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examining the impact of the English and European Reformations on social interaction and community harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights the tension and degree of accommodation amongst ordinary people when faced with religious and social upheaval. Building on previous literature, this volume furthers our understanding of the process of negotiation at the most fundamental social and political levels.