Altars restored : the changing face of English religious worship, 1547-c.1700
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
Church history
xviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780198207009, 019820700X
163616453
'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