The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520 1725

A 1995 study of religious belief and practice in England in the early modern period.

Preface; 1. The importance of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Margaret Spufford; 2. The social and economic status of the later Lollards Derek Plumb; 3. A gathered church? Lollards and their society Derek Plumb; 4. The origins, function, and status of the office of churchwarden, with particular reference to the diocese of Ely Eric Carlson; 5. The gravestone of Thomas Lawrence revisited, or the Family of Love and the local community in Balsham, 1560-1630 Christopher Marsh; 6. Piety in the pedlar's pack: continuity and change, 1578-1630 Tessa Watt; 7. The mobility and descent of dissenters in the Chiltern Hundreds Michael Frearson, Nesta Evans and Peter Spufford; 8. The social and economic status of post-Restoration dissenters, 1660-1725 Bill Stevenson; 9. The social integration of post-Restoration dissenters, 1660-1725 Bill Stevenson; 10. Critical conclusion Patrick Collinson; Appendices.