X: 1558-1603 ELIZABETHAN PURITANISM

Q: What were the aims and achievements of the Elizabethan puritans?

 

Generally and definition

  1. B Hall 'Puritanism: the definitional problem' Studies in Church History, 2 (1966)
  2. R O'Day and Felicity Heal, Church and society in England: Henry VIII to James I
  3. R O'Day and Felicity Heal, Continuity and change
  4. W Haller, The rise of puritanism
  5. C Hill, Society and puritanism in pre-revolutionary England
  6. C Durston and J Eales eds, The culture of early modern puritanism, 1560-1700

 

Puritanism, politics and parliament

  1. P Collinson 'Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Elizabethan "via media"' Historical Journal 23 (1980) [Raises fundamental questions about the theological knowledge of Elizabeth's most important ministers]
  2. C Cross, The royal supremacy in the Elizabethan church
  3. WT MacCaffrey, The shaping of the Elizabethan regime
  4. JE Neale, Elizabeth I and her parliaments [But see the critiques on the parliamentary reading list]
  5. P Collinson, 'John Field and Elizabethan puritanism, in ST Bindoff, etc, eds, Elizabethan government and society
  6. P Collinson, The Elizabethan puritan movement
  7. H Porter, Reformation and reaction in Tudor Cambridge
  8. C Cross, The puritan earl
  9. WT MacCaffrey, 'The crown and the new aristocracy' Past and Present, 30 (1965)

 

Puritanism and episcopacy

  1. P Collinson, 'Episcopacy and reform in England in the later sixteenth century' Studies in Church History, 3 (1967)
  2. P Collinson, Archbishop Grindal
  3. F Heal, Of prelates and princes
  4. P Lake, 'Matthew Hutton: a puritan bishop' History, 64, (1979)
  5. P Lake, Moderate puritans and the Elizabethan Church
  6. E.H.Shagan, 'The English Inquisition: Constitutional conflict and ecclesiastical law in the 1590s' The Historical Journal 47 (2004)

 

Puritanism and the localities

  1. P Clark, English provincial society
  2. C Haigh, Reformation and reaction in Tudor Lancashire
  3. RC Richardson, Puritanism in north-west England
  4. WJ Shields, Puritans in the diocese of Peterborough, 1558-1620
  5. Laquita M. Higgs, Godliness and Governance in Tudor Colchester Michigan University Press
  6. Christopher Marsh, 'Common Prayer in England 1560-1640: The view from the pew' Past and Present 2001 171: 66-94
  7. P McGrath, Papists and puritans
  8. P Collinson, 'Cranbrook and the Fletchers: popular and unpopular religion in the Kentish weald' in PN Brooks, ed, Reformation in principle and practice: essays in honour of AG Dickens

Also:

  1.  P. Collinson, Godly people: essays on English protestantism and puritanism
  2. P. Collinson, The birthpangs of protestant England
  3. John Bossy, The English Catholic community
  4. D MacCulloch, The later Reformation in England 1547-1603
  5. Peter Iver Kaufman, 'Prophesying again', Church History 68 (1999), pp.337-58
  6. Kristen Poole, Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
  7. Susan Wabuda and Caroline Litzenberger, ed. Belief and Practice in Reformation England: A Tribute to Patrick Collinson from his Students St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History 1998

 

The early-Stuart aftermath

  1. David Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004
  2. P. Lake & M.Questier, The Antichrist's lewd hat, YUP 2002
  3. Kenneth Fincham, The Early Stuart Church, 1603-1642 Stanford University Press, 1993
  4. Michael C. Questier, ed., Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625 CUP 1996

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