- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post- Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the Church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care, and political practice amounted not to a culturally-backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalisation. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781139683609
- 1139683608
- 9781316319611
- 131631961X
- LCCN
- 2015003496
- OCLC
- 908633282
- Author
Bulman, William J., 1979- author.
- Title
Anglican enlightenment : Orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715 / William Bulman.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
©2015
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2015).
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1600-1714