: Religion and letter writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800
\ Anne Dunan-Page, Clotilde Prunier, editors.
; New York
: Springer
, 2013.
ix, 215 p.
International archives of the history of ideas
; 209
Includes bibliographical references and index.
part I, Protestant identities: Scribal networks and sustainers in Protestant martyrology / Mark Greengrass -- Thomas Browne, the Quakers, and a letter from a judicious friend / Reid Barbour -- Writing authority in the Interregnum : the pastoral letters of Richard Baxter / Alison Searle -- Letters and records of the dissenting congregations : David Crosley, Cripplegate and Baptist church life / Anne Dunan-Page -- part II, Representations of British Catholicism: "For the greater glory" : Irish Jesuit letters and the Irish Counter-Reformation, 1598-1626 / David Finnegan -- Negotiating Catholic kingship for a Protestant people : "private" letters, royal declarations and the achievement of religious detente in the Jacobite underground, 1702-1718 / Daniel Szechi -- "Every time I receive a letter from you it gives me new vigour" : the correspondence of the Scalan Masters, 1762-1783 / Clotilde Prunier -- part III, Religion, science and philosophy: Utopian intelligences : scientific correspondence and Christian virtuosos / Claire Preston -- Debating the faith : Damaris Masham (1658-1708) and religious controversy / Sarah Hutton -- Evangelical Calvinists versus the Hutcheson Circle : debating the faith in Scotland, 1738-1739 / James Moore -- Questioning church doctrine in private correspondence in the eighteenth century : Jean Bouhier's doubts concerning the soul / Ann Thomson.
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:Religion and letter writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800
Religious thought-- Great Britain-- 16th century.
Religious thought-- Great Britain-- 17th century.
Religious thought-- Great Britain-- 18th century.
Letter writing-- Great Britain-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.