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'Settling the Peace of the Church': 1662 Revisited
Contributor(s): Keeble, N. H. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0199688532     ISBN-13: 9780199688531
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $137.75  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - History
- Religion | Christianity - Protestant
Dewey: 270
LCCN: 2014941175
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" L (1.05 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent ejections on August 24 (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history. Intended, in its own words, to settle
the peace of the church by banishing dissent and outlawing Puritan opinion it instead led to penal religious legislation and persecution, vituperative controversy, and repeated attempts to diversify the religious life of the nation until, with the Toleration Act of 1689, its aspiration was finally
abandoned and the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to dissent were, within limits, legally recognised. Bartholomew Day was hence, unintentionally but momentously, the first step towards today's pluralist and multicultural society.

This volume brings together nine original essays which on the basis of new research examine afresh the nature and occasion of the Act, its repercussions and consequences and the competing ways in which its effects were shaped in public memory. A substantial introduction sets out the historical
context. The result is an interdisciplinary volume which avoids partisanship to engage with episcopalian, nonconformist, and separatist perspectives; it understands English history as part of British history, taking in the Scottish and Irish experience; it recognises the importance of European
and transatlantic relations by including the Netherlands and New England in its scope; and it engages with literary history in its discussions of the memorialisation of these events in autobiography, memoirs, and historiography. This collection constitutes the most wide-ranging and sustained
discussion of this episode for fifty years.
 
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