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Article: Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England, edited by Muriel C. McClendon, Joseph P. Ward, and Michael MacDonald. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1999. xiii, 372 pp. $55.00 U.S. (cloth).
This Festschrift for Paul Seaver contains thirteen papers on aspects of Protestant experience, addressing questions of gender, family, guilds, localities, ethnicity, and poverty. The editors approach the construction of the public post-Reformation self from a "post-revisionist perspective" which holds that the early Reformation "had a lasting effect on the laity's beliefs and practices" (p. 2). Yet, despite careful ...