Calvin Lane - The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church

THE LAUDIANS AND THE ELIZABETHAN
CHURCH: HISTORY, CONFORMITY AND
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN
POST-REFORMATION ENGLAND

THE LAUDIANS AND THE ELIZABETHAN
CHURCH: HISTORY, CONFORMITY AND
RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN
POST-REFORMATION ENGLAND

BY

Calvin Lane

First published 2013 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited

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Lane, Calvin.

The Laudians and the Elizabethan Church: history, conformity and religious

identity in post-Reformation England. (Religious cultures in the early modern

world)

1. Church of England England History 17th century. 2. Great Britain

Church history 17th century. 3. Laud, William, 15731645 Influence. 4.

Dissenters, Religious England History 17th century.

I. Title II. Series

283.4209032-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-351-4 (hbk)

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Like many others, this book has had a long gestation and has benefited from the help of a number of colleagues and teachers. As it is based on my University of Iowa PhD dissertation, I must first thank, of course, Ralph Keen, whose support and encouragement over the years has been unsurpassed. Similarly, Raymond Mentzer has been a fantastic guide through the wider world of scholarly research. Ralph and Ray have been superb mentors. I must also thank two other historians who had a major impact on the early life of this project. My work on Peter Smart began in a seminar with Dwight Bozeman, whose inimitable expertise in the field of Puritan studies was a great resource before his well-deserved retirement. The real genesis of this book, however, began even earlier, when Peter Kaufman, with great though characteristic liberality, allowed a senior undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to join one of his graduate seminars. His generous admission in 2002 has resulted in this book more than a decade later. These are but a few of the exceptional teachers who have left a mark on this project. Likewise, the staff and editors at Pickering & Chatto, particularly Philip Good and Ruth Ireland, have been attentive and flexible. Also, I am indebted to the series editor Peter Marshall (whose own scholarship has influenced this work) for his grace and understanding during the contract stage as well as his critical review. A host of others have been very helpful to guide, criticize or simply listen. Among these, Marjon Ames, Gary Jenkins, Kathleen Kamerick, Michael Kelly, Thomas Mayer, Scott McGinnis, Anthony Milton, David Neelands, Brown Patterson, Alvin Snider and William Tighe have been generous with their time. Likewise, audiences at several conferences, particularly at meetings of the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, have helped me to test many of the ideas in this book. I am also extremely grateful to work with colleagues who care about professional and personal development at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, especially Garwood Anderson, Steven Peay, Arnold Klukas and Daniel Westberg. My students have also suffered through lectures on this material and, in one seminar, were happy to read portions of the manuscript. Among them I must thank Charles Hart, Nathaniel Kidd and Thomas Pettigrew.

Without question, I am indebted to the capable staff members at the University of Iowa libraries, particularly David Schoonover, as well as the incredibly resourceful librarians at the Frances Donaldson Library at Nashotah House, principally David Sherwood and Laura Hummer, who have, in a sense, performed works of supererogation. I have also benefited from scores of librarians at the Newberry Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the British Library, the Parliamentary Archives, the Lambeth Palace Library, the St Pauls Cathedral Library, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford University. Moreover, my research was supported by generous grants from the University of Iowa, the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, and the Mellon Foundation.

My work has been richly shaped by friendships made while in graduate school. A wide range of conversations over both coffee and beer, on long car rides to conferences, and during lunch meetings on the third floor of Gilmore Hall have left their mark. In particular I must highlight how grateful I am to have trained in early modern studies with a strong cohort of folks working in the same area. David Howlett, Douglas Jones, Ezra Plank, Peter Yoder and, of course, Denise Kettering have contributed to my scholarship in ways that I cannot fully express, and thus I borrow from the psalms: