Black Bartholomew's Day

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, centres 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 order This book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England.

ISBN 0719075610   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780719075612 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 567 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain Publication date 01 Sep 2007   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress DA350   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 280.4094109032   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Further/Higher education

		Acknowledgements
		Conventions
		Abbreviations
		Introduction		1
1		The context of Restoration nonconformity		18
2		Preaching, audience and authority		55
3		Scripture, historicism and the critique of authority		92
4		The public circulation of the Bartholomean texts		131
5		Polemical responses to Bartholomean preaching		171
6		Epilogue		211
7		Conclusion		218
		Bibliography		227
		Index		247

"A substantial contribution to the study of the farewell sermons, Restoration Nonconformity and the 1660's". Professor John Spurr, University of Wales, Swansea

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