• Introduction


• 1: 'The Stripping of the Altars', 1547-1560


• 2: The Edwardian Legacy, 1560-1604


• 3: Avante-Garde Conformity and the English Church, c.1590-1625


• 4: Propaganda Wars, 1624-1640


• 5: The Turning of the Tables, 1625-1640


• 6: The Beauty of Holiness, 1625-1640


• 7: Repression and Revival, 1640-1660


• 8: Altars Restored, 1660-c.1700


• Conclusion

Altars are powerful symbols, but during the early modern period they became a religious battleground. Altars Restored examines a time when religious lives were fundamentally challenged. By looking at what happened physically in local churches, the book recaptures the experience of the ordinary parishioner in this period of religious change.