A collection of original letters from the bishops to the Privy council, 1564, with returns of the justices of the peace and others within their respective dioceses, classified according to their religious convictions
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
96
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/0,6 cm
Gewicht
133 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-562-6
England is listening for dissent. In 1564 the bishops answered with names, notes, and hard judgements. Power speaks through official paperwork. Mary Bateson brings together a primary source collection: a historical letters anthology of bishops reports to privy council, paired with justices of peace returns and other local certifications from across the dioceses, all classified by religious convictions. Read as a Tudor state papers edition, these documents show how policy became pressure, how parish reputation became evidence, and how the language of duty framed religious conformity and recusancy. For elizabethan history research, few volumes place you so close to the administrative pulse of elizabethan england 1560s: who was trusted, who was suspected, and how the Crown measured loyalty. Behind each return sits a community: schoolmasters, householders, officers, and neighbours weighed in the same ledger. The classifications reveal the state learning to count belief, and the Church learning to report it. Bateson's careful arrangement makes comparison possible between dioceses, offering a view of regional patterns without losing the immediacy of the original correspondence. At once a reformation studies reference and an absorbing encounter with human voices under scrutiny, it illuminates tudor church administration in action, with the texture and reach of english reformation documents and ecclesiastical visitation records. Ideal for annotating, citing, and rereading year after year. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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