Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance

by Andrew Hadfield

Book Overview

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder Plot. The period is characterised by panic and chaos when few had any idea how religious, cultural, and social life would develop after the traumatic division of Christendom. While many saw the need for a secular power to define the truth others declared that their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192844806
• ISBN13: 9780192844804
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"