Peter Lake

The Boxmaker's Revenge

'Orthodoxy, ' 'Heterodoxy, ' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London

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Produktbeschreibung

"This substantive investigation of parochial politics is not merely the story of a private vendetta, but rather a dynamic narrative about popular opinion in flux. . . . The Boxmaker's Revenge deserves a wide readership among serious scholars."--History "A brilliantly argued, erudite book."--Religious Studies Review

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780804737173
• ISBN-10: 0804737177
• Artikelnr.: 48065152

Autorenporträt

Peter Lake is Professor of History at Princeton University. Among his works is Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England (co-editor, Stanford, 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Part 1 - Stephen Denison
1. Introduction: the occasion
2. The puritanism of Stephen Denison: i. doctrinal and pietistic
underpinnings
3. The puritanism of Stephen Denison: ii. ecclesiastical forms and
political consequences
Part 2 - John Etherington
4. Denison and Etherington or was John Etherington a familist?
5. Another pair of initials? T.L., H.N. and the ideological formation of
the young Etherington
6. What Etherington really thought: the 1620s
Part 3 - The London puritan scene
7. The London puritan underground
8. William Chibald and the strange case of 'A trial of faith'
9. Doctrinal dispute and damage limitation in the London puritan community
Part 4 - Denison and Etherington again
10. Heading for the high ground: Denison and Etherington on order,
authority and orthodoxy
11. The Laudian style and the politics of the parish-pump
12. Retrospective: Denison and Etherington position themselves for
posterity
13. Conclusion
Index