Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism - Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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6 October, 2016
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781107606982 |
| ISBN10 | 1107606985 |
| Number Of Pages | 252 |
| Item Weight | 370 g |
| Product Dimensions | 151 x 228 x 13 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
'A work of formidable scholarship which explores the Puritan movement through the eyes of its most relentless opponent. Historians of the North will be particularly interested in Bancroft's dealings with successive archbishops of York.' Northern History
'This volume is part of the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History and is produced to a high standard with an index and footnotes. With Collinson's other writings, it is an essential tool for those interested in the puritanism of late Elizabethan England.' Congregational History Society Magazine
'Collinson portrays perceptively what Bancroft did in defending the Church of England.' Alen Boyer, The Seventeenth Century
Author's Bio
Patrick Collinson CBE (1929–2011) was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge (1988–96) and a Fellow of Trinity College and the British Academy. The leading historian of sixteenth-century religion and politics of his generation, he was the author of many important books, notably The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967), The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625 (1982) and The Birthpangs of Protestant England (1988). He also published several collections of his essays, including Godly People (1983), Elizabethan Essays (1994), From Cranmer to Sancroft (2006) and This England (2011).