Black Bartholomew's Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity

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.

It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centers centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. 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. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political order

This book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture, and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England.

Author: Peter Lake, David Appleby
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 07/01/2012
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780719087806

About the Author

David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham