Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

Reid Barbour's study takes a fresh look at English Protestant culture in the reign of Charles I (1625 1649). In the decades leading into the civil war and the execution of their monarch, English writers explored the experience of a Protestant life of holiness, looking at it in terms of heroic endeavours, worship, the social order, and the cosmos. This broad ranging study offers an extensive reappraisal of crucial seventeenth-century themes, and will be of interest to historians as well as literary scholars of the period.Barbour, Reid is the author of 'Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England', published 2001 under ISBN 9780521809474 and ISBN 0521809479.