The Family of Love in English Society, 1550-1630

by Christopher W. Marsh

This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate contemporaries, and an association with extremism, subversion and hypocrisy has endured. The author tracks the English Familists into their houses, fields and places of work. Although members of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052102000X
• ISBN13: 9780521020008
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"