Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood

by Highley and Christopher Highley

Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban enclave best known in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for the incongruous juxtaposition of playing and godly preaching. As the former site of one of London's great religious houses, the post-Reformation Blackfriars was a Liberty free from mayoral control. The legal exemptions and privileges enjoyed by its residents helped attract an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192846973
• ISBN13: 9780192846976
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.4"