Introduction: Post-revisionism and the history of practices in the early modern British world

This volume samples from the best current scholarship on religion and politics in early modern Britain in order to highlight one future line of inquiry for the field. The goal is to draw attention to practice as an organizing category and focal point. The volume is also meant to honour Peter Lake, perhaps the most important inspiration for the project sketched here. The book therefore joins the focus and purpose of a Festschrift to a broader scholarly agenda. Each chapter, written by one of Lake’s former advisees or protégés, exemplifies the burgeoning historiography of practices and testifies to Lake’s leading