Glory, Laud and Honour: The Arts of the Anglican Counter-Reformation

by Graham John Parry

A wide-ranging survey of the brief revival of religious art, architecture, music, and literature during the Counter-Reformation.

This book offers an accessible overview of the achievements of Laudian culture, so much of which was destroyed in the Civil Wars. Some eighty years after the Reformation, the brief span of the Anglican Counter-Reformation in the 1620s and 1630s saw a revival of the arts in the Church. With the rise of a "High Church"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843833751
• ISBN13: 9781843833758
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 6.3"