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Peter Lake - Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid´s Tragedy - 9781783270149 - V9781783270149
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Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid´s Tragedy

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Description for Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid´s Tragedy Hardback. A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of the English Civil War. Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History. Num Pages: 403 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 40. Weight in Grams: 866.
This book starts with an extraordinary event and document. The event is the trial and execution for infanticide of a puritan minister, John Barker, along with his wife's niece and their maid, in Northampton in 1637; the document, what appears to be a virtual transcript of Barker's last speech on the gallows. His downfall soon became polemical fodder in scribal publications, with Puritans circulating defences of Barker and anti-Calvinists producing a Laudian condemnation of the minister. Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England uses Barker's crime and fate as a window on the religious ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
860g
Number of Pages
403
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270149
SKU
V9781783270149
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid´s Tragedy
[This] book is essential reading for everyone interested in early modern English religion. THE HISTORIAN [A] richly detailed book ... [Lake and Stephens] exploit a truly extraordinary convergence of different sources in manuscript and print . The manuscript discoveries, the leads shared by other historians, and the very extensive quotation from the sources vividly show ... Read more

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