Black Bartholomew's Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity
David J. Appleby
Abstract
This book 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, providing an 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. The book re-interprets the political significance ... More
Keywords: Puritan ministers, Church of England, farewell sermons, valedictions, dissenting preachers, Bartholomew's Day, government officials, magistrates, bishops, Puritan clergy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719075612 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719075612.001.0001 |
