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Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 209)

Editors: Dunan-Page, Anne; Prunier, Clotilde

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5216-0

ISBN: 978-94-007-5215-3

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Sep 28, 2012

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Schneider, Gary

Pages: 1 –15

[Before she was executed for treason on 12 February 1554, Lady Jane Grey, the nine days’ queen, wrote a letter to John Feckenham, a Catholic priest with whom Grey had discussed matters of faith. Grey also wrote another letter to her sister, Lady Catherine Grey, an exhortation to Catherine to...
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Scribal Networks and Sustainers in Protestant Martyrology

Greengrass, Mark

Pages: 19 –35

[This essay examines the culture and power of epistolarity among the Protestant communities ‘under the Cross’ in France from 1547 to 1559, and in England from 1553 to 1558. It is based on research undertaken in the British Academy John Foxe Project. In the case of the English martyrologist, John...
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Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a Letter from a Judicious Friend

Barbour, Reid

Pages: 37 –48

[Despite Sir Thomas Browne’s prominent (if complex) pronouncements of his commitment to the Church of England in Religio Medici, a Quaker named Samuel Duncon wrote a letter to Browne in which Duncon accentuates the sympathy between their respective spiritual tendencies. In his letter, Duncon...
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Writing Authority in the Interregnum: The Pastoral Letters of Richard Baxter

Searle, Alison

Pages: 49 –67

[This essay explores the construction of pastoral authority during the Interregnum through four brief case-studies of Richard Baxter’s correspondents. The vacuum created by the collapse of traditional religious and political structures, as well as the spirit of experimentation that the...
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Letters and Records of the Dissenting Congregations: David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist Church Life

Dunan-Page, Anne

Pages: 69 –87

[This chapter examines the status and function of letters in manuscript records of dissenting Churches of the post-Toleration years, concentrating on the correspondence of the Baptist Church of Cripplegate. The letters are placed in the context of controversies about Church government and...
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‘For the Greater Glory’: Irish Jesuit Letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation, 1598–1626

Finnegan, David

Pages: 91 –106

[The historical myth persists that the Irish Jesuits were the critical force in defining the Irish Counter-Reformation and that until the establishment of a permanent Jesuit mission in Ireland in 1598, Irish Catholicism at best remained hidebound and at worst in danger of succumbing to...
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Negotiating Catholic Kingship for a Protestant People: ‘Private’ Letters, Royal Declarations and the Achievement of Religious Detente in the Jacobite Underground, 1702–1718

Szechi, Daniel

Pages: 107 –122

[It is well known that there was a great deal of religious tension between Protestants and Catholics in eighteenth century Britain. What is far less well known is that this tension reached into the heart of the Jacobite movement. Protestant Jacobites were determined to prevent Catholicism coming...
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‘Every Time I Receive a Letter from You It Gives Me New Vigour’: The Correspondence of the Scalan Masters, 1762–1783

Prunier, Clotilde

Pages: 123 –135

[In the eighteenth century, the seminary at Scalan played a pivotal role in the Scottish Mission – promising Lowland boys were first instructed there, before training for the priesthood at one of the Scots Colleges on the Continent. The education of those boys was entrusted to a succession of...
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Utopian Intelligences: Scientific Correspondence and Christian Virtuosos

Preston, Claire

Pages: 139 –157

[Of the many early-modern literary utopias, the most extensive and achieved was the so-called republic of letters maintained in the correspondence conducted and managed by the likes of Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, John Evelyn, and their many scientific colleagues in the second half of the...
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Debating the Faith: Damaris Masham (1658–1708) and Religious Controversy

Hutton, Sarah

Pages: 159 –175

[Damaris Masham was one of a tiny handful of seventeenth-century women who published philosophical writings: A Discourse Concerning the Love of God (1696) and Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Vertuous or Christian Life (1705). Like many seventeenth-century women, Damaris Masham also engaged...

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