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Social reformation in urban mid-Elizabethan England was often driven by episodes of social regulation in which governmental and ecclesiastical authorities attempted, through coercion and persuasion, to change the sexual and other behaviors of the population. Examining this process in the community of Colchester, the author argues that the "middling sort," especially the Jacobean Puritans and intermediate officers of the borough, played a much larger role in this process than suggested by earlier historians. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
