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Reform in the Provinces
The Government of Stuart England
Inbunden, 1986
978 kr
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The foundation of the English state from the reigns of the Tudors to the age of Queen Victoria was a partnership between the crown and the country gentlemen who exercised administration and justice in the localities. This book is about a formative period in the making of that partnership. Anthony …
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
Häftad, 1999
752 kr
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Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy—the social and cultural dominance of the male—has long been a fundamental feature of western civilization yet has only recently begun to be systematically …
Mistress
A History of Women and their Country Houses
Av Anthony Fletcher, Ruth M. Larsen
Inbunden, 2025
312 kr
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An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth century Grand houses can be found across the countryside of England and Wales. From the Stuart and Georgian periods to the Edwardian and Victorian, these buildings were once home to …
Growing Up in England
The Experience of Childhood 1600-1914
Häftad, 2010
239 kr
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This book presents an entirely fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, the book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in …
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
E-bok, 2013
197 kr
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This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the …
Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front
Häftad, 2016
268 kr
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A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters homeThis book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his …
Tudor Rebellions
Av Diarmaid MacCulloch, Anthony Fletcher
Häftad, 2020
412 kr
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Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.The book throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the …
Tudor Rebellions
Av Diarmaid MacCulloch, Anthony Fletcher
Inbunden, 2020
1958 kr
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Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.The book throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the …
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597
Av Paul E. J. Hammer, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
586 kr
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The final decades of the reign of Elizabeth I were marked by the meteoric career of her last great favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565-1601), and the outbreak of bitter political divisions at Court and across the realm. This revisionist 1999 study challenges the traditional …
The Family of Love in English Society, 1550-1630
Av Christopher W. Marsh, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
921 kr
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This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship, the 'Family of Love', in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists, devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named 'H. N.', were passionately denounced by many literate contemporaries, and an association with …
Sermons at Court
Politics and Religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Preaching
Av Peter McCullough, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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This 1998 study describes the most neglected site of political, religious and literary culture in early modern England: the court pulpits of Elizabeth I and James I. It unites the most fertile strains in early modern British history - the court and religion. Dr McCullough shows work previous to his …
The Blessed Revolution
English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621-1624
Av Thomas Cogswell, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
838 kr
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This book examines the background to the English military intervention in the Thirty Years War. Blending accounts of diplomacy and factional in-fighting at Court with parliamentary and popular politics, it aims to illuminate the 'revolution' of 1624 when the Palatine crisis forced James I to …
Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England
Av Tim Stretton, Anthony Fletcher
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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This book investigates the surprisingly large number of women who participated in the vast expansion of litigation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Making use of legal sources, literary texts, and the neglected records of the Court of Requests, it describes women's rights under …
Reading History in Early Modern England
Av D. R. Woolf, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
574 kr
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This book focuses on the 'after-life' of historical texts in the period between the arrival of printing in England and the early eighteenth century. Whereas previous studies of historical writing during this period have focused on their authors and on their style or methodology, this work examines …
The Church in an Age of Danger
Parsons and Parishioners, 1660-1740
Av Donald A. Spaeth, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
754 kr
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This book explores popular support for the Church of England during a critical period, from the Stuart Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century, when Churchmen perceived themselves to be under attack from all sides. In many provincial parishes, the clergy also found themselves in dispute with …
Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-81
Av Mark Knights, Anthony Fletcher
Häftad, 2006
586 kr
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The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession crisis of the years 1678 to 1681 are the context for this new study. It asks two key questions: was there an exclusion crisis? and did these years witness the birth of modern political parties? The author argues that the unrest was not …
Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson
Av Anthony Fletcher, Peter Roberts
Häftad, 2006
787 kr
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In this volume seventeen distinguished historians of early modern Britain pay tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher. Several present reviews of major areas of debate: of the significance of the regulations which determined the social and legal status of professional actors in Elizabethan …
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Av Joad Raymond, Anthony Fletcher
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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By the end of the seventeenth century the most effective means of persuasion and communication was the pamphlet, which created influential moral and political communities of readers, and thus formed a 'public sphere' of popular, political opinion. This book is a unique history of the printed …
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
Av Anthony Fletcher, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
754 kr
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The social history of early modern England has become a lively area of publication and debate. This volume attempts both to take stock of distinct directions in the field and to suggest fresh perspectives on some central aspects of the period. The distinguished contributors bring to bear upon the …
An Uncounselled King
Charles I and the Scottish Troubles, 1637-1641
Av Peter Donald, Anthony Fletcher
Inbunden, 1990
2012 kr
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The concept of kingship as Charles I understood it was challenged by the Covenanters in a struggle of protest over the government of Scotland. Although many aspects of this episode have received historical attention, Charles's own role has not hitherto been investigated in detail. Using a large …
Criticism and Compliment
The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I
Av Kevin Sharpe, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
636 kr
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Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by critics and characterised by historians as propaganda for …
London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis
Av Tim Harris, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
737 kr
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This study of the political attitudes of ordinary Londoners during the reign of Charles II examines not only the manifestations of public opinion - for example, riot and demonstration - but also the manner of its formation - religious experience, economic activity, and exposure to mass political …
Prosecution and Punishment
Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725
Av Robert B. Shoemaker, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
2230 kr
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The law was one of the most potent sources of authority and stability in early modern England. Historians, however, have argued over whether the discretion and flexibility embodied in the judicial system was used as a method of social control, and by focusing their attention on felonies and on the …
Exile and Kingdom
History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America
Av Avihu Zakai, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1991
1928 kr
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This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America, and shows how Puritans believed that their removal to New England fulfilled prophetic apocalyptic and eschatological visions. An apocalyptic ideology of history, as a mode of historical thought, …
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom
Av W. B. Patterson, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2163 kr
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This book shows King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England, in an unaccustomed light. Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, James is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman whose reign was focused on achieving a permanent union between his two kingdoms and a peaceful and …
The Blind Devotion of the People
Popular Religion and the English Reformation
Av Robert Whiting, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
921 kr
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The religious revolution known as the 'Reformation' must rank among the most crucial and transforming events in English history. Yet its original reception by the English people remains largely obscure. Did they welcome the innovations - or did they resist? By what internal motivations were their …
Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625
Av Michael C. Questier, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1677 kr
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The Reformation was, in many ways, an experiment in conversion. English Protestants urged conversion from popery to the Gospel, from idolatry to the true God, while Catholic polemicists persuaded people away from heresy to Catholic truth, from schism to unity. Michael Questier's meticulous study of …
Sir Matthew Hale, 1609-1676
Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy
Av Alan Cromartie, Anthony Fletcher
Inbunden, 1995
2012 kr
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Sir Matthew Hale (1609-76) was the greatest common lawyer of his age, and the most universally admired. Although he held office under Oliver Cromwell, this barely affected his standing in Restoration times. A study of Hale's life and thought necessarily illuminates the central role of the common …
Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
Av Judith Maltby, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1668 kr
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This book explores the culture of conformity to the Church of England and its liturgy in the period after the Reformation and before the outbreak of the Civil War. It provides a necessary corrective to our view of religion in the period by a serious exploration of the laity who conformed, out of …
The Chief Governors
The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588
Av Ciaran Brady, Anthony Fletcher m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
502 kr
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This book offers an extended reinterpretation of English policy in Ireland over the sixteenth century. It seeks to show that the major conflicts between Tudor governors and native lords which characterised the period were not the result of a deliberate Tudor strategy of confrontation, but arose …
