Godly People
| Author | : Patrick Collinson |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 1982-07-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780826436474 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0826436471 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Godly People by : Patrick Collinson
Download or read book Godly People written by Patrick Collinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1982-07-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the sons and grandsons of the English Reformation, the 'hotter sort', were known to their contemporaries as 'puritans', but they called themselves 'the godly'. This career-spanning collection of essays by Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, deals with numerous aspects of the religious culture of post-Reformation England and its implications for the politics, mentality, and social relations of the Elizabethans and Jacobeans.
