TY - JOUR AU - Basista, Jakub PY - 2021/10/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Gangraena i remedium, o herezjach i zwyrodnieniu religijnym w Anglii połowy XVII w. JF - Studia Historyczne JA - StudiaHistoryczne VL - 62 IS - 2 (246) SE - Articles DO - 10.12797/SH.62.2019.02.05 UR - https://journals.akademicka.pl/studiahistoryczne/article/view/3883 SP - 65-86 AB - <p><strong><em>Gangraena</em> and its cure: on Heresies and Religious Perversions in mid-seventeenth century England</strong></p><p>The English Civil War saw an explosion in the production of printed material. Booklets, pamphlets, leaflets, and ballads of all types and covering all manner of subjects appeared in their thousands. Indeed, the number of titles printed during this period surpassed 2,000 per year. Among these we find a large category of prints denouncing religious heresy and perverse behaviors. The most elaborate of these was Thomas Edwards’s <em>Gangraena</em>, which ran to several thousand pages in length and spanned three consecutive volumes. In this article, the author looks at various religious sects in England and aspects of their beliefs and behaviors to examine how the Restoration England of Charles II tried to cure its population of unorthodox and perverse religious ideas.</p> ER -