Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan anti-Puritanism
By: Patrick Collinson
Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781107023345
Subjects: Politics and government; Relations with Puritans; Puritans; Church history; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; History
Description: "This major new study is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan movement through the eyes of its most determined and relentless opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived threat to the stability of the church and state presented by the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts and archive of documents and letters, casting important new light on religious politics and culture"--