Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 / / Daniel C. Beaver.
Many historians have attempted to understand the violent religious conflicts of the seventeenth century from viewpoints dominated by concepts of class, gender, and demography. But few studies have explored the cultural process whereby religious symbolism created social cohesion and political allegia...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- The Vale of Gloucester in the Vicinity of Tewkesbury
- Introduction: Church History as a Cultural System
- I. Social Form, 1590-1690
- 1. Reverend Histories: Geography and Landscape
- 2. Parts, Persons, and Participants in the Commonwealth: Social Relations, Institutions, and Authority
- 3. Under the Hand of God: Parish Communities and Rites of Mortality
- II. Social Process, 1590-1690
- 4. Circumcisions of the Heart: Church Courts, Social Relations, and Religious Conflict, 1591-1620
- 5. A Circle of Order: The Politics of Religious Symbolism, 1631-1640
- 6. To Unchurch a Church: Civil War and Revolution, 1642-1660
- 7. Astraea Redux: Religious Conflict, Restoration, and the Parish, 1660-1665
- 8. Bloody Stratagems and Busy Heads: Persecution, Avoidance, and the Structure of Religion, 1666-1689
- Conclusion: Symbol and Boundary: Religious Belief, Ceremony, and Social Order
- Appendix 1. Tables
- Appendix 2. Accusations of Witchcraft in Tewkesbury
- Notes
- Manuscript Sources
- Index