Trickes of the Clergye
Alexandra Walsham: Atheistical Thoughts, 25 April 2024
Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 223 pp., £30, July 2023,978 1 009 26877 6 Show More
by Michael Hunter.
Cambridge, 223 pp., £30, July 2023,
“... He notes rather than tests Keith Thomas’s interlinked suggestions that some members of Tudor and Stuart society rarely went to church and that ‘the hold of organised religion … was never so complete as to leave no room for rival systems of belief.’ Little attention is paid to the opinions that landed humbler parishioners in the ecclesiastical courts ... ”