Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England: A Northamptonshire Maid's Tragedy

by Peter Lake and Isaac Stephens

This book starts with an extraordinary event and document. The event is the trial and execution for infanticide of a puritan minister, John Barker, along with his wife's niece and their maid, in Northampton in 1637; the document, what appears to be a virtual transcript of Barker's last speech on the gallows. His downfall soon became polemical fodder in scribal publications, with Puritans circulating defences of Barker and anti-Calvinists producing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783270144
• ISBN13: 9781783270149
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"