Black Bartholomews Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity Appleby David
Black Bartholomews Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity Appleby David Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of…
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Black Bartholomews Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity Appleby David
Black Bartholomew's Day 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.David Appleby's book, the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centres on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance and ostensibly moderate and marginalised Puritan clergy posed a credible threat to the restored political order.This book approaches the texts, their authors and audiences from a number of angles: investigating the preachers' need to reconcile 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.