By Patrick Collinson
This significant new examine is an exploration of the Elizabethan Puritan circulation throughout the eyes of its such a lot decided and incessant opponent, Richard Bancroft, later Archbishop of Canterbury. It analyses his obsession with the perceived hazard to the steadiness of the church and kingdom offered through the advocates of radical presbyterian reform. The e-book forensically examines Bancroft's polemical tracts and archive of records and letters, casting vital new mild on non secular politics and tradition. Focussing at the ways that anti-Puritanism interacted with Puritanism, it additionally illuminates the method through which spiritual identities have been cast within the early sleek period. the ultimate publication of Patrick Collinson, the pre-eminent historian of sixteenth-century England, this can be the end result of a life of seminal paintings at the English Reformation and its ramifications.
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But Featley was cautious. 32 Paule’s life remained unwritten. We shall not call Bancroft a Papist, a term as vague as ‘Puritan’ and more elusive than ‘Roman Catholic’. We shall come to some kind of conclusion about this, but not yet. , MS Ashmolean 1463, fol. 13r. 31 CUL, MS Dd. 73. I owe this reference to John Craig. , MS Rawlinson D 43, fol. 19 (Daniel Featley to Sir George Paule, undated). CHAPTER 3 Battle commences John Whitgift’s response to the challenge of radical, presbyterian Puritanism was to engage Thomas Cartwright in an interminable controversy, a battle of books conducted according to the remorseless but strict rules of academic engagement.
16. Turner, a pioneering English botanist, was dean of Wells, where he is said to have trained his pet dog to pluck off the square caps of visiting ecclesiastical dignitaries. John H. Primus, The Vestments Controversy (Kampen, 1960). On all this, see H. C. Porter, Reformation and Reaction in Tudor Cambridge (Cambridge, 1958). 16 Richard Bancroft and Elizabethan Anti-Puritanism A little before these storms in the Cambridge teapot, the queen had visited Cambridge to indulge in an exacting feast of sermons, disputations and Latin plays.
He feared and detested the enthusiasm of deeply committed Protestants. But at a critical point in his career he had no difficulty in cultivating good relations with a party of Catholic priests. Can we believe that Bancroft’s commitment to the reformed religion was skin deep, part of an outward carapace, not heartfelt? It is possible, although the more we find out about the religion of Elizabethans the more difficult it becomes to stick firm denominational labels on a great many very celebrated people.
