Princes Pastors and People

<p><em>Princes Pastors and People</em> traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries. </p><p>It is designed to make accessible to readers much of the most recent research and to guide them through the major historical controversies of the last twenty-five years:</p><p>* the causes of the English Reformation<br>* the popularity of the Elizabethan Protestant Church<br>* the impact of the Laudian innovations of the 1630s<br>* the Puritan attempt to control popular culture and belief.</p><p>By adopting a thematic rather than chronological approach the book is also able to chart the long-term developments across the period in key areas such as doctrinal and liturgical change the role of the clergy and the importance of religion in the everyday lives of people.</p>