Being Elizabethan
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781119168249
Subjects: Conduct of life; Faith; Belief and doubt; Great britain, history, elizabeth, 1558-1603; England, social life and customs; Great britain, social conditions; Great britain, religion
Description: "This book has been in gestation since 1972. When I began studying history professionally, I had a question on my mind: I wanted to understand the relationship between belief and behavior. My lab was the Reformation, in which people openly talked about what they believed and formally altered those beliefs, marking the beginning of early modern culture. Since I began, my work has explored various approaches to this question, and this work is a synthesis of my varied inquests into Elizabethan society"--