Parish Communities and Religious Conflict in the Vale of Gloucester, 1590-1690 (Harvard Historical Studies)

Author(s): Daniel C. Beaver

Series: Harvard Historical Studies

Publisher: Harvard University Press, Year: 1998

Description:
Many historians have attempted to understand the violent religious conflicts of the seventeenth century from viewpoints dominated by concepts of class, gender, and demography. But few studies have explored the cultural process whereby religious symbolism created social cohesion and political allegiance. This book examines religious conflict in the parish communities of early modern England using an interdisciplinary approach that includes all these perspectives.