Creating Communities in Restoration England: Parish and Congregation in Oliver Heywood's Halifax

Review ''Thomas's book is distinguished by the detail and force of its historical and archival research and for the light it sheds on the ways in which early modern communities were formed and kept together. It will be of interest not only to scholars of Restoration nonconformity, but anyone interested in the nature of religious and social cohesion in the seventeenth century.''Carrie A. Hintz Cuny, Queens College and The Graduate Center. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4, Winter 2013, p. 1444. Product Description Through the extensive diaries of Presbyterian minister Oliver Heywood, this book explores the role that individuals played in fashioning their religious communities during the Restoration, as England stumbled from persecution towards a limited toleration of Protestant dissenters. About the Author Samuel S. Thomas, Ph.D. (2003) in History, Washington University in St. Louis, teaches history at University School outside Cleveland, Ohio. He has published scholarly articles and in 2013 will publish his first novel, The Midwife's Tale: A Mystery (Minotaur Press).