Cases of Conscience: Alternatives Open to Recusants and Puritans Under Elizabeth 1 and James 1

by Elliot Rose

Book Overview

The history of religious dissent has usually been written from the point of view of the martyr for his faith. Elliot Rose's aim in this book is to look at the religious troubles of the Elizabethan age from the point of view of those who sympathized with ardent Catholics or Puritans but were not anxious to be martyrs. Two questions arise: What options other than martyrdom were open to them in practice? And what did their religion tell them about the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521081149
• ISBN13: 9780521081146
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"