ISBN:
9789400752160
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Internationales d'histoire des Idées Ser. v.209
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DDC:
261.709410903
Keywords:
Religious thought -- England -- 16th century
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Religious thought -- England -- 17th century
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Religious thought -- England -- 18th century
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Abstract:
The first to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, this book shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as questions of form and genre.
Abstract:
Intro -- Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Correspondences -- 1.2 Background -- 1.3 Letters and Religion, 1550-1800 -- 1.4 The Current State of Scholarship on Religion and Letter Writing -- 1.5 Ongoing Correspondences: The Present Collection -- References -- Part1: Protestant Identities -- Chapter 2: Scribal Networks and Sustainers in Protestant Martyrology -- References -- Chapter 3: Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend -- References -- Chapter 4: Writing Authority in the Interregnum: The Pastoral Letters of Richard Baxter -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Earl of Lauderdale -- 4.3 Katherine Gell -- 4.4 Thomas Doolittle -- 4.5 Abraham Pinchbecke -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Letters and Records of the Dissenting Congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church Life -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Church Records and Epistolarity: The Example of Cripplegate -- 5.3 David Crosley -- 5.4 The Seventh Commandment -- 5.5 Letters and the Law -- 5.6 A Wounded Spirit? -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Representations of British Catholicism -- Chapter 6: 'For the Greater Glory': Irish Jesuit Letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation, 1598-1626 -- References -- Chapter 7: Negotiating Catholic Kingship for a Protestant People: 'Private' Letters, Royal Declarations and the Achievement of Religious Detente in the Jacobite Underground, 1702-1718 -- References -- Chapter 8: 'Every Time I Receive a Letter from You It Gives Me New Vigour': The Correspondence of the Scalan Masters, 1762-1783 -- References -- Part III: Religion, Science and Philosophy -- Chapter 9: Utopian Intelligences: Scientific Correspondence and Christian Virtuosos -- References.
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