Peter Lake
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1225871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Lake |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Lake |
| FIRMA | LAKE P |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1544-1020 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
On Laudianism
Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account establishes the theological roots and political resonances of Laudianism, and shows how it was based on the recuperation of the theological principles and ecclesiastical and pietistic ambitions that underpinned it. Peter Lake shows how the Laudians' famous obsession with the beauty of holiness contained a plan for the reinvigoration of both the church a…
On Laudianism
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke have traditionally been consulted by historians of early Stuart puritanism for biographical information, particularly anecdotal information, about many of the most famous puritan divines of the age. But, in fact, the lives, and the martyrologies and ecclesiastical histories in which they were contained, were a product of the events of the English civil war and revolution; and more particularly of the disastrous de…
Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England
On thinking (historically) with stereotypes, or the puritan origins of anti-puritanism
This chapter seeks to redate the entry of the anti-puritan stereotype into printed discourse to the early 1580s, in the work of George Gifford. Rather than the work of some hack polemicist replying to Martin Marprelate in the early 1590s, the stereotype first appeared, pretty much fully formed, almost ten years earlier, in the work of a leading puritan divine. The chapter then examines the dialectical exchanges between the godly and their critics…
Hamlet's Choice
This incisive book reveals how in Titus Andronicu s and Hamlet , Shakespeare worked through a range of Tudor anxieties, including concerns about the nature of justice, resistance, and salvation. In both Hamlet and Titus , the princes are faced with successions forged under questionable circumstances and they each have a choice: whether or not to resort to political violence. The unfolding action, the book argues, is best understood in terms of co…
Hamlet's Choice
Hamlet's Choice
Hamlet's Choice
Hamlet with the confessional and succession politics left in
This chapter concentrates on the play “Hamlet,” which is conventionally regarded as a revenge tragedy. It reviews the critical commentary that that centred on the topos of Hamlet's “delay” that was predicated upon that assumption. It also mentions the introduction of the genre called the Histories, in which the Folio dissolved the kinship between tragedy and history. The chapter examines how Hamlet speaks to contemporary political concerns and ci…
The social world of early modern Westminster
Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book reveals the often problematic relations between the diverse groups of people who constituted local society - the Court, the aristocracy, the Abbey, the middling sort and the poor - and the competing visions of Westminster's identity which their presenc…
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
This book presents an analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England. With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. The text reveals the extent to which Shakespeare's plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political cultur…
The politics of popularity and faction (in a popular state)
This chapter argues that Julius Caesar is about more than the incompatibility of the politics of honour and of popularity. It also reveals the incompatibility of honour with the political process per se, when, that is, that process is conceived and evaluated instrumentally as the pursuit of personal and factional advantage and power. For, however great their personal claims to honour and virtue, the means deployed by all the major characters in t…
The politics of prodigy, prophecy and providence (in a pagan state)
This chapter looks at the politics of prodigy, prophecy, and providence in Julius Caesar . Julius Caesar is a play notoriously suffused with the supernatural; a plethora of prodigies and prophecies, of omens and curses, recur throughout the action. Bombarded by so many prodigious warnings of the dreadful events that are about to unfold, and of their own fates within them, the characters in the play are not only entirely unable to interpret these …
Performing honour and the politics of popularity (in a popular state)
This chapter focuses on performing honour. To be honourable one must be accepted as such by other men of honour. In nearly all the scenes and speeches analysed in the previous chapter, honour is being performed by one or other of the characters before an audience of his peers and that is because, in the absence of a single source of honour or title, of the sort provided in a monarchy by the prince, honour must be continually asserted and conferre…
Multimodal Residential Treatment for Adolescent Anxiety
Publics and Participation
This article responds to the pieces collected in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies , all of which seek to take some notion of the politics of the public sphere and either apply it to, or break it upon the wheel of, various versions of British history during the post-Reformation period. It seeks to bring the other articles into conversation both with one another as well as with existing work on the topic
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
"With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare's England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare's plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways…
Bad Queen Bess?
This title explores the role of plot talk, conspiracy theory, and libellous secret history during the Elizabethan regime, analysing the back and forth between Catholic critics and William Cecil and his circle, and the effect this had on the political, cultural, intellectual, and religious history of the time, both in England, and in a wider European context.
Thomas Digges, Robert Parsons, Sir Francis Hastings, and the Politics of Regime Change in Elizabethan England
By reconstructing the multiple contexts that prompted the production, in 1601, of a single tract, this article evokes and analyses the febrile political atmosphere of the Elizabethan fin de siècle , produced by the spectre of regime change consequent upon the death of the queen, and by the visible connections between central elements in the regime and certain Catholic loyalists involved in the notorious Archpriest Controversy. Certain men, most n…
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Ju…
The “Political Thought” of the “Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I,” Discovered and Anatomized
This paper uses two manuscript tracts to reconstruct the vision of the English polity underpinning Lord Burghley's interregnum proposals of 1584–85. These proposals famously prompted Patrick Collinson's work on “the monarchical republic of Elizabeth I,” which in turn became embroiled in subsequent attempts to recuperate distinctively “republican” strands of thought and feeling in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Written by two cl…
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967)
This essay seeks to set Patrick Collinson's book The Elizabethan Puritan Movement within the historiographical context in which it was written, within the context provided by his own subsequent oeuvre and in that provided by the succeeding historiography. It is intended as both an appreciation and a critique, but one offered with the greatest respect to a great scholar. It suggests that from the outset Collinson's work was contained within a tria…
Munitions of the Mind
This book presents a history of propaganda from the ancient world to the present day. The ancient Greeks, best remembered for their enduring contributions to civilization, recognized that propaganda was an essential ingredient of an organized and effective society. The book begins with the suggestion that it is the intention behind propaganda that needs scrutiny, not just the propaganda itself. It is intention that has caused and prolonged wars. …
Response to three essays on The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558–1680 presented at Renaissance Society of America Convention, April 2010 Literature Compass Conference Cluster
This article considers how hard it has proven to recover the ways in which puritan religion both enabled and contained the efforts of various early modern women to combine the fulfillment of their calling as Christians with the demands placed upon them by contemporary gender roles. The article then goes on to discuss how the three essays to which it responds successfully explore the subtly contradictory nature of the impact of puritanism on the l…
Rethinking the Public Sphere in Early Modern England
T he "public sphere" has become ubiquitous in the historiography and in historically oriented literary criticism of early modern England. In this article, we argue that the phrase does have real efficacy in discussions of early modern England. However, we want to use "public sphere" in slightly different ways than most scholars have done. In particular, we argue that a narrative of the emergence of the public sphere, in the ways we will define it…
Constitutional Consensus and Puritan Opposition in the 1620s
In 1620 Thomas Scott published a notorious pamphlet entitled Vox Populi . This purported to recount the proceedings of the Spanish council of state and denounced the devious machinations of Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, and by implication the pro-Spanish policy of King James. Once Scott's authorship became known he took the traditional way out and fled to the Low Countries. There he served as a preacher with the English regiments and as a min…
The Ecclesiastical Policy of King James I
In a sermon preached at Hampton Court on September 30, 1606, John King proclaimed that “our Solomon or Pacificus liveth.” James I had “turned swords into sithes and spears into mattocks, and set peace within the borders of his own kingdoms and of nations about us.” His care for the “Church and maintenance to it” was celebrated. All that remained was for his subjects to lay aside contentious matters and join “with his religious majesty in propagat…
Serving God and the Times
Robert Sanderson was a Calvinist, indeed, he was an evangelical Calvinist anxious to impart, through pulpit and press, the central tenets of Calvinism to the laity. He also hated Puritanism and said so loud and often. During the 1630s Sanderson cooperated enthusiastically with the Laudian regime. As a Royalist during the Civil War, he was one of the divines taken by Charles I to the Isle of Wight to provide spiritual counsel as the king struggled…
Calvinism and the English Church 1570?1635
Journal Article CALVINISM AND THE ENGLISH CHURCH 1570?1635 Get access P. G. Lake P. G. Lake Royal Holloway and Bedford New CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 114, Issue 1, February 1987, Pages 32–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/114.1.32 Published: 01 February 1987
The Significance of the Elizabethan Identification of the Pope as Antichrist
It has become a commonplace of modern historical scholarship that most Elizabethan Protestants regarded the pope as Antichrist. The present article is an attempt to penetrate beneath the surface of that commonplace. It does not seek to cast doubt on the existence of such a common perception of the pope as Antichrist. However, it will be argued that within that consensus, and to an extent masked by it, there existed very important implicit differe…
Matthew Hutton–a Puritan Bishop
Puritans, Papists, and the "Public Sphere" in Early Modern England
Agency, Appropriation and Rhetoric Under the Gallows
Peter Lake, Michale Questier; AGENCY, APPROPRIATION AND RHETORIC UNDER THE GALLOWS: PURITANS, ROMANISTS AND THE STATE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND, Past & Prese
Puritan Identities
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Puritanism, (Monarchical) Republicanism, and Monarchy; or John Whitgift, Antipuritanism, and the “Invention” of Popularity
There has been much talk of late about the Elizabethan state as a “monarchical republic” and about the emergence in and through the religious disputes of Elizabethan England of a “post-Reformation public sphere.” The term popularity emerged as a pejorative term used by contemporaries to refer to and condemn the sorts of attitudes and modes of communicative and political action associated in the recent scholarship with those terms. This essay trac…
Orthodoxy” and Its Discontents
In this article we address the topic of intra-Puritan doctrinal debate and, by examining the mechanisms whereby the godly in the capital tried, if not to conclude then at least to control and ameliorate their in-house doctrinal disputes, to reconstruct some of the mechanisms—social, political, and ideological—whereby doctrinal “consensus” or “orthodoxy” was constructed, policed, and reproduced among the godly. Thus we hope to penetrate the shadow…
William Bradshaw, Antichrist and the Community of the Godly
Hatred of popery was hardly a puritan monopoly in late sixteenthand early seventeenth-century England. The conviction that the pope was Antichrist was something of a commonplace amongst Protestant Englishmen. Considerable attention has recently been paid to the terms in which the identification was established and asserted. The supposed link between such concerns and a ‘millenarian’ radicalism has quite rightly been challenged, most notably by Dr…
Puritans, Antinomians and Laudians in Caroline London
Early in 1629 one Peter Shaw, an obscure London preacher, appeared before the Court of High Commission. While the records of the court for the relevant period have been lost, it seems clear from a later case that Shaw was both convicted and suspended. For, speaking in 1631, during proceedings against the antinomian, Samuel Pretty, Laud claimed that he spake the less in this cause (as he intimated) because there had been so much said against these…
Publics and Participation
This article responds to the pieces collected in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies , all of which seek to take some notion of the politics of the public sphere and either apply it to, or break it upon the wheel of, various versions of British history during the post-Reformation period. It seeks to bring the other articles into conversation both with one another as well as with existing work on the topic
Thomas Digges, Robert Parsons, Sir Francis Hastings, and the Politics of Regime Change in Elizabethan England
By reconstructing the multiple contexts that prompted the production, in 1601, of a single tract, this article evokes and analyses the febrile political atmosphere of the Elizabethan fin de siècle , produced by the spectre of regime change consequent upon the death of the queen, and by the visible connections between central elements in the regime and certain Catholic loyalists involved in the notorious Archpriest Controversy. Certain men, most n…
The King (The Queen) and the Jesuit
The paper argues that Robert Parsons's tract The Conference about the next succession provides the immediate polemical and political context in which James VI wrote his True Law of Free Monarchies . The argument is not that that tract is a simple reply to Parsons but rather a response to the position occupied both by Parsons and Buchanan, which in fact were very similar. James's pamphlet was occasioned, however, by Parsons's book and the concerns…
Margaret Clitherow, Catholic Nonconformity, Martyrology and the Politics of Religious Change in Elizabethan England
Margaret Clitherow, Catholic Nonconformity, Martyrology and the Politics of Religious Change in Elizabethan England Get access Peter Lake, Peter Lake Princeton University Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Questier Michael Questier Princeton University Queen Mary and Westfield College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Business as Usual? The Immediate Reception of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity
The ideological valence or resonance of Hooker's Ecclesiastical polity has proved to be a controversial subject. This article attempts to bring to bear on the problem the immediate response to Hooker's book of a number of contemporaries – moderate Puritans, avant-garde conformists and Catholics. It concludes that none of these groups saw the Polity as a mere restatement of English reformed orthodoxy, the continuation of English conformist busines…
Feminine Piety and Personal Potency
Sir Richard Grosvenor and the Rhetoric of Magistracy
RICHARD CUST, PETER G. LAKE; Sir Richard Grosvenor and the Rhetoric of Magistracy, Historical Research, Volume 54, Issue 129, 1 May 1981, Pages 40–53, http
The “Political Thought” of the “Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I,” Discovered and Anatomized
This paper uses two manuscript tracts to reconstruct the vision of the English polity underpinning Lord Burghley's interregnum proposals of 1584–85. These proposals famously prompted Patrick Collinson's work on “the monarchical republic of Elizabeth I,” which in turn became embroiled in subsequent attempts to recuperate distinctively “republican” strands of thought and feeling in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Written by two cl…
A Tale of Two Episcopal Surveys
This article seeks to relate the course of Edmund Grindal's disgrace to the formulation and enforcement of policy against catholics. It argues that the two were integrally related and that the nature of that interrelationship can be seen as a function of certain manoeuvres and debates about a range of issues involving the queen and her councillors and bishops and indeed members of the wider regime. The resulting exchanges were conducted in terms …
The Dilemma of the Establishment Puritan
This paper is concerned widi the puritan in office. It sets out to deal with an incident that took place in the university of Cambridge in 1589, and, in analysing that incident, to examine the tensions and ambiguities inherent in the position of the puritan divine (and here I mean both presbyterians and ‘fellow-travellers’) involved in the traditional administrative and jurisdictional hierarchies of the university. At first sight the affair in qu…
The Dilemma of the Establishment Puritan
This paper is concerned widi the puritan in office. It sets out to deal with an incident that took place in the university of Cambridge in 1589, and, in analysing that incident, to examine the tensions and ambiguities inherent in the position of the puritan divine (and here I mean both presbyterians and ‘fellow-travellers’) involved in the traditional administrative and jurisdictional hierarchies of the university. At first sight the affair in qu…
Matthew Hutton–a Puritan Bishop
The Significance of the Elizabethan Identification of the Pope as Antichrist
It has become a commonplace of modern historical scholarship that most Elizabethan Protestants regarded the pope as Antichrist. The present article is an attempt to penetrate beneath the surface of that commonplace. It does not seek to cast doubt on the existence of such a common perception of the pope as Antichrist. However, it will be argued that within that consensus, and to an extent masked by it, there existed very important implicit differe…
Sir Richard Grosvenor and the Rhetoric of Magistracy
RICHARD CUST, PETER G. LAKE; Sir Richard Grosvenor and the Rhetoric of Magistracy, Historical Research, Volume 54, Issue 129, 1 May 1981, Pages 40–53, http
Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church
This book is an examination of the puritanism of a series of divines, including Dering, Cartwright, Whitaker and Chaderton, all of whom passed through the University of Cambridge between 1560 and 1600. Dr Lake gives a detailed analysis of their careers and opinions. The personal and ideological links between them are established and in the process some idea of the range of opinions current among puritan divines in this period is built up. The aim…
Constitutional Consensus and Puritan Opposition in the 1620s
In 1620 Thomas Scott published a notorious pamphlet entitled Vox Populi . This purported to recount the proceedings of the Spanish council of state and denounced the devious machinations of Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, and by implication the pro-Spanish policy of King James. Once Scott's authorship became known he took the traditional way out and fled to the Low Countries. There he served as a preacher with the English regiments and as a min…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Bedford CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCII, July 1984, Pages 608–609, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCII.608 Published: 01 July 1984
Puritan Identities
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William Bradshaw, Antichrist and the Community of the Godly
Hatred of popery was hardly a puritan monopoly in late sixteenthand early seventeenth-century England. The conviction that the pope was Antichrist was something of a commonplace amongst Protestant Englishmen. Considerable attention has recently been paid to the terms in which the identification was established and asserted. The supposed link between such concerns and a ‘millenarian’ radicalism has quite rightly been challenged, most notably by Dr…
The Ecclesiastical Policy of King James I
In a sermon preached at Hampton Court on September 30, 1606, John King proclaimed that “our Solomon or Pacificus liveth.” James I had “turned swords into sithes and spears into mattocks, and set peace within the borders of his own kingdoms and of nations about us.” His care for the “Church and maintenance to it” was celebrated. All that remained was for his subjects to lay aside contentious matters and join “with his religious majesty in propagat…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Bedford CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCVIII, January 1986, Pages 237-b–239, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCVIII.237-b Published: 01 January 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Royal Holloway and Bedford New CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue CCCCII, January 1987, Pages 204–206, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.CCCCII.204 Published: 01 January 1987
Conformist Clericalism? Richard Bancroft’s Analysis of the Socio-economic Roots of Presbyterianism
If the English Reformation can be seen as an extended transaction between the laity and the clergy, then its outcome is surely well described, in Claire Cross’s phrase, as the ‘triumph of the laity’. While most Elizabethan Protestant divines were more than happy about the spiritual aspects of that triumph, they were altogether less enthusiastic about its impact on the standing of the clergy. Certainly the independence, status, and thus the materi…
Feminine Piety and Personal Potency
Calvinism and the English Church 1570?1635
Journal Article CALVINISM AND THE ENGLISH CHURCH 1570?1635 Get access P. G. Lake P. G. Lake Royal Holloway and Bedford New CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 114, Issue 1, February 1987, Pages 32–76, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/114.1.32 Published: 01 February 1987
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PETER LAKE PETER LAKE Royal Holloway & Bedford New CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVII, April 1988, Pages 494–496, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVII.494 Published: 01 April 1988
Serving God and the Times
Robert Sanderson was a Calvinist, indeed, he was an evangelical Calvinist anxious to impart, through pulpit and press, the central tenets of Calvinism to the laity. He also hated Puritanism and said so loud and often. During the 1630s Sanderson cooperated enthusiastically with the Laudian regime. As a Royalist during the Civil War, he was one of the divines taken by Charles I to the Isle of Wight to provide spiritual counsel as the king struggled…
Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker
Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church. This book shed new light on the crucial disagreements between puritans and conformists and the importance of these divisions for political processes within both the church and wider society. The originality and complexity of Richard Hooker’s though…
Richard Kilby
The image of the minister of the word current amongst English evangelical protestants and puritans was both exalted and ambiguous. Ministers were ‘the lord’s ambassadors, the salt of the earth, the light of the world, the dispensers of God’s mysteries, the builders of God’s church and the chariot and horsemen ... of a Christian kingdom.’ However, the qualities and qualifications necessary successfully to fulfill that role were onerous in the extr…
Bozeman, Theodore Dwight. To Live Ancient Lives
Protestants, Puritans and Laudians
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The Laudian Style
The early Stuart Church has always been the subject of controversy. In part this has been due to the reasons intrinsic to the subject and in part due to the perennial concern of historians with the origins of the Civil War. But where once scholarly attention was focused on an allegedly revolutionary or at least radical and radicalising puritanism, now the major object of discussion and study is an allegedly innovatory Arminianism.
The Blessed Revolution
Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan England, of Protestant ideas about marriage, of the political significance of the Anglo-Scottish Union, of relations between the Churches of England, Sco…
Deeds against Nature
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