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Author Fincham, Kenneth.

Title Altars restored : the changing face of English religious worship, 1547-c.1700 / Kenneth Fincham and Nicholas Tyacke
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations
Contents 'The stripping of the altars', 1547-1560 -- The Edwardian legacy, 1560-1604 -- Avant-garde conformity and the English Church, c.1590-1625 -- Propaganda wars, 1624-1640 -- The turning of the tables, 1625-1640 -- The beauty of holiness, 1625-1640 -- Repression and revival, 1640-1660 -- Altars restored, 1660-c.1700
Summary By looking at what happened physically in the local churches, in contrast to the formal enactments of government, and using sources such as churchwardens' accounts and surviving religious artefacts, the book recaptures the experience of the ordinary parishioner in this crucial period of religious change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-375) and index
Notes English
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Subject Worship -- History -- 16th century
Worship -- History -- 17th century
Altars -- England -- History -- 16th century
Altars -- England -- History -- 17th century
RELIGION -- Christian Church -- Administration.
Altars
Worship
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267
England -- Church history -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043268
Subject England
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Tyacke, Nicholas.
ISBN 0191518719
9780191518713
9780198207009
019820700X
1281145238
9781281145239
9786611145231
6611145230