Black Bartholomew’s Day
Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformityDavid J. Appleby
"A substantial contribution to the study of the farewell sermons, Restoration Nonconformity and the 1660s."
Professor John Spurr, University of Wales, Swansea
"Although the book has but one mention of (John) Bunyan, we agreed that the book's contribution to dissenting studies was exceptional."
The 2010 Greaves Book Award committee (Black Bartholomew's took the 2010 Greaves Book Award)
Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662.
It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political orderThis book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion,
nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching
in Restoration England.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The context of Restoration nonconformity
2. Preaching, audience and authority
3. Scripture, historicism and the critique of authority
4. The public circulation of the Bartholomean texts
5. Polemical responses to Bartholomean preaching
6. Epilogue
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
David Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham
234x156mm 272pp
hb 9780719075612 31 July 2007 £55.00
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