2005
DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cei330
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The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prelacy and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England

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“…35 The parallels drawn by Sparke projected the Ranters as heretics and blasphemers, whose prosecution by the state was both necessary and legitimate; as Ian Atherton and David Como have shown, the burnings of Wightman and Legatt, at the order of James I and within machinery of the Church of England, had commanded widespread support in 1611. 36 Michael Sparke, a substantial publisher and active member of the Stationers' Company, worked with a group of publishers with well-established Presbyterian links; The narrative history of King James was thus a polemical nod towards the need for the punishment and restraint of dangerous blasphemous opinions.…”
Section: The Dynamics Of Ranter Stereotypingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…35 The parallels drawn by Sparke projected the Ranters as heretics and blasphemers, whose prosecution by the state was both necessary and legitimate; as Ian Atherton and David Como have shown, the burnings of Wightman and Legatt, at the order of James I and within machinery of the Church of England, had commanded widespread support in 1611. 36 Michael Sparke, a substantial publisher and active member of the Stationers' Company, worked with a group of publishers with well-established Presbyterian links; The narrative history of King James was thus a polemical nod towards the need for the punishment and restraint of dangerous blasphemous opinions.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The last ‘heretic’ burned in England was a Protestant, Edward Wightman, who died in 1612. Atherton and Como seek to rescue him from his conventional depiction as an unfortunate but insignificant religious madman. They stress that Wightman was a direct offshoot of the radicalism inherent in much puritan belief, not an irrelevant curiosity.…”
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 Henry French
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“…The last person to be burned under the heresy statute for denying the Holy Trinity was Edward Wightman in 1612, and the last to be executed for blasphemy was Thomas Aikenhead in 1697. 34 Undoubtedly, the need for ecclesial and political control of belief preoccupied the ruling elites of church and state until the end of the early modern period. But many of the views identified as heretical in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have no roots in Reformation "fundamentalism," as James Simpson would have it, or in the syntheses of belief promulgated by the various Reformation churches.…”
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