Worship and the parish church in early modern Britain
By: edited by Natalie Mears, Alec Ryrie
Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history; St. Andrews studies in Reformation history
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781409426042; 9781409455448; 9781472401618
Subjects: Public worship; Pfarrkirche; Kirchengemeinde; Church history; Gottesdienst; Religionsausübung; Worship; History
Description: "The parish church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have meant has attracted less attention-- and ironically, is sometimes less well-documented--than the non-conformity or semi-conformity of recusants, church-papists, Puritan conventiclers or separatists. In this volume, ten leading scholars of early modern religion explore the experience of parish worship in England and Scotland during the Reformation and the century that followed it. As contributors argue, parish worship in this period was of critical theological, cultural and even political importance"--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Worship and the parish church / Natalie Mears & Alec Ryrie; title: Teaching in praying words? Worship and theology in the early modern English parish / Hannah Cleugh; title: Special nationwide worship and the Book of Common Prayer in England, Wales and Ireland, 1533-1642 / Natalie Mears; title: Elizabethan primers: symptoms of an ambiguous settlement or devotional weaning? / Bryan D. Spinks; title: Fall and rise of fasting in the British reformations / Alec Ryrie; title: Music reconciled to preaching: a Jacobean moment? / Peter McCullough; title: Protestant worship and the discourse of music in reformation England / Jonathan Willis; title: At it ding dong : recreation and religion in the English belfry, 1580-1640 / Christopher Marsh; title: Bodies at prayer in early modern England / John Craig; title: As wise as serpents: the form and setting of public worship at little gidding in the 1630s / Trevor Cooper; title: Extravagances and impertinencies : set forms, conceived and extempore prayer in revolutionary England / Judith Maltby.