Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521793874 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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It provides a necessary corrective to our view of religion in that period through a serious exploration of the laypeople who conformed, out of conviction, to the Book of Common Prayer. This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the outbreak of the Civil War. These "prayer book Protestants" formed a significant part of the spectrum of society in Tudor and Stuart England, yet until now they have remained an almost completely uninvestigated group.
In reading her book, Episcopalians will rediscover some of the reasons that The Book of Common Prayer in its many editions and revisions has been and continues to be so important to the life of the Episcopal Church and to the Anglican Communion." Sewanee Theological Review"Maltby's exploration of the evidence for 'prayer book Protestants' between 1560 and 1640 is an important and welcome discussion." Catholic Historical Review . "This book is an original, provocative, and persuasive analysis of the character of the Church of England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." Sewanee Theological Review"This is an ambitious and intelligent study, which raises important questions about the `bedding-down' of
Learning to love the Book of Cmmon Prayer Byron Nelson Maltby provides a valuable corrective to those historians who argue that (1) the English of the 16th Century eagerly and easily embraced the new Protestant faith and (2) the English would have preferred to remain Catholic. What really happened: English parishioners learned to enjoy and even to love the Book of Common Prayer. Maltby makes an original, compelling case.