Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan anti-Puritanism / Patrick Collinson.

"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 b...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Collinson, Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; I; II; Chapter 2 Beginnings; Chapter 3 Battle commences; Chapter 4 The 1580s: Whitgift, Hatton and the High Commission; Chapter 5 Martin Marprelate; Chapter 6 What Bancroft found, and didn't find, in the godly ministers' studies; Chapter 7 Out of the frying pan, into the fire and out again; I; II; III; Chapter 8 Prayer, fasting and the world of spirits: the other face; I; II; Chapter 9 Possession, dispossession, fraud and polemics; I; II; III.
  • Chapter 10 Richard Bancroft, Robert Cecil and the Jesuits: the bishop and his Catholic friendsChapter 11 Archbishop of Canterbury; I; II; III; IV; V; Index.