The Family of Love in English Society, 1550-1630Cambridge University Press, 1994 - 305 páginas 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. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Hostility and historiography | 2 |
Problems of access | 6 |
A microscopic method | 10 |
Emerging themes | 14 |
Familist belief the quest for perfection | 17 |
The Voice of HN | 18 |
Precedents and influences | 28 |
The Puritan Crisis | 124 |
John Knewstub Versus Robert Seale | 127 |
Outcomes | 136 |
Resolution the pursuit of internal cohesion 15821603 | 140 |
The wills of Creake and Raven part I | 143 |
Familist Households | 145 |
Economic networks and Material Prosperity | 150 |
Mutual Support | 157 |
Voices raised in hostility | 33 |
Extracted confessions | 34 |
Voices raised in selfdefence | 39 |
Wills | 43 |
Knowing them by their fruits | 48 |
Seedbeds and first shoots 15501565 | 52 |
Marian Protestants | 54 |
Conservatives | 64 |
Anabaptist sectaries | 66 |
Enthusiastic conformists | 68 |
A background in astrology | 70 |
a common thread? | 74 |
Development and consolidation 15651579 | 77 |
Books and ballads | 79 |
Internal organisation | 85 |
Parlour Meeting and Familist Sociability | 89 |
Behaviour Before The World | 93 |
Progress | 100 |
Crisis 15761582 | 103 |
Animus | 110 |
The Need for a Scapegoat | 113 |
Courtiers | 116 |
Country People | 122 |
The Lief of the Land | 161 |
The Courtier Familists | 162 |
OfficeHolding in the Country | 170 |
Resolution the pursuit of external integration 15821603 | 174 |
The wills of Creake and Raven part II | 175 |
Faith and social relations | 176 |
Outward charity and social responsibility | 182 |
Religious tolerance in country and court | 187 |
The Familist paradox | 196 |
Crisis renewed 16031610 | 198 |
Basilikon Doron James VII | 200 |
A supplication of the Family of Love Robert Seale? | 201 |
The Family of Love Thomas Middleton | 205 |
William Saffords books | 213 |
the burial of Thomas Lawrence | 218 |
Resolution | 231 |
After the first generation 16101700 | 235 |
Conclusion | 249 |
The house that Robert Dorrington built | 260 |
the membership of the Family of Love | 265 |
Bibliography | 288 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 292 - A Confutation of monstrous and horrible Heresies, taught by HN and embraced of a number who call themselves the Familie of Love. By I. Knewstub. Imprinted in London at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, by Thomas Dawson, for Richard Sergier, 1579,
Página 291 - In that year they presented to parliament ' An apology for the Service of Love, and the People that own it, commonly called the Family of Love ' " On 12 June, 1574, five persons of the ' Family ' stood at ' Paules Crosse,' and publicly recanted, confessing that they ' utterly detested HN, his errors and heresies.
Página 291 - Clerke, and une 12. otuer of tnat secte) tearmed the Familie of Love, at Pawles Crosse in London the xii of June. An. 1575.
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