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Chapter 36 - The Laudian Avant Garde

Young Men in a Hurry: Cambridge University in the 1630s

from Part V - Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2023

Peter Lake
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
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This chapter examines the cutting edge of Laudian theological, ecclesiological and liturgical experiment in Cambridge University during the 1630s. The protagonists here were mostly young men, anxious to push the envelope of the doable and the sayable, and in the process attract the approval of their superiors in the university and church. Moving on from the further reaches of Arminian theology they toyed with notions like justification by works and the necessity of confession to a priest, more and more elaborate decorations of college chapels, and more and more florid performances of what they took to be ceremonial decorum and their critics took to be popish superstition and idolatry. These antics attracted the opprobrium of the old university Calvinist establishment and the support of an emerging clique of Laudian heads of house. A dynamic emerged through which the Laudian agenda was pushed further and faster than some its leading lights, up to and including Laud himself, might have liked. This was a syndrome that continued to operate right up until the collapse of the personal rule in 1640/1.

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On Laudianism
Piety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I
, pp. 492 - 517
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • The Laudian Avant Garde
  • Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: On Laudianism
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306829.045
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  • The Laudian Avant Garde
  • Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: On Laudianism
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306829.045
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  • The Laudian Avant Garde
  • Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book: On Laudianism
  • Online publication: 05 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009306829.045
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