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Family Of Love In English Society, 1550-1630

  • Paperback
  • 328 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

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This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate contemporaries, and an association with extremism, subversion and hypocrisy has endured. The author tracks the English Familists into their houses, fields and places of work. Although members of the Family were few in number and highly secretive, identification has proved possible in contexts ranging from the court of Elizabeth I to rural villages in Cambridgeshire. The author also examines the distinctive way of life which was developed by Family members within a wider society that, on the face of it, was hostile to religious dissenters: one surprising conclusion is that most English men and women seem to have possessed an impressive capacity to tolerate known 'heretics' in their midst.
Family Of Love In English Society, 1550-1630 and Popular Religion in Sixteenth-century England
Popular Religion in Sixteenth-century EnglandFamily Of Love In English Society, 1550-1630
  • Author

    Christopher W. Marsh

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 2005

  • Weight

    482g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521020008

  • ISBN-10

    052102000X

  • Eden Code

    1007427

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