The Post-Reformation：Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714

Writing for general readers and students as much as for specialists in the period, Spurr (history, U. of Swansea) sidesteps the question of whether the Protestant Reformation succeeded or not, to focus on the reality of religious belief and behavior during the 17th century. He traces the interaction between religion and politics from the reign of James I through the Commonwealth and Protectorate to the reign of William III and Anne. Then he considers religion in relation to society, community, and church. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Spurr is Professor of History at the University of Swansea. He is the author of The Restoration of The Church of England 1646-1689 (Yale U.P., 1991), English Puritanism, 1603-1689 (Palgrave, 1998), and England in the 1670s: ?This Masqerading Age?(Blackwell, 2000). He has edited volume 1 (1677-85) of the forthcoming Roger Morrice?s Entring Book, the last great unpublished seventeenth-century diary. He is at work on a history of oaths and swearing in the early modern period.