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English Civil Wars
1640-1660
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 2010
130 kr
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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more …
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England
John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
Av Blair Worden
E-bok, 2007
488 kr
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In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses …
God's Instruments
Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Av Blair Worden
E-bok, 2012
510 kr
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of …
John Milton
Life, Writing, Reputation
Häftad, 2010
441 kr
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This volume offers a series of fresh explorations of the life, writing, and reputation of John Milton. The ten papers take us inside Milton's verse and prose, into the context of the events and the intellectual debates within which they were written, and into the later worlds within which his …
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England
John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
Av Blair Worden
Inbunden, 2007
691 kr
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In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses …
Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England
John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 2009
766 kr
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In this book a pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their …
God's Instruments
Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Av Blair Worden
Inbunden, 2012
1427 kr
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of …
God's Instruments
Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 2013
827 kr
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of …
English Civil Wars
1640-1660
Av Blair Worden
E-bok, 2009
51 kr
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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more …
Europe's Physician
The Various Life of Theodore de Mayerne
Av Hugh Trevor-Roper, Blair Worden
Inbunden, 2006
473 kr
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A brilliant, unknown work by the great historian Hugh Trevor-RoperAmong the papers of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who died in 2003, was a manuscript to which he had repeatedly turned for more than thirty years, but never published. Attracted by the diverse life and vivid personality of Sir Theodore de …
Sound of Virtue
Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia' and Elizabethan Politics
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 1996
755 kr
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Philip Sidney's Arcadia, written in about 1580, is a romance, a love story, a work of wit and enchantment set in an ancient and mythical land. But, as Blair Worden now reveals, it is also a grave and urgent commentary on Elizabethan politics. Under the protective guise of pastoral fiction, says …
Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution
Av Ian Gentles, John Morrill m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
804 kr
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This collection of essays examines the struggles of the people of England with the collapse of civilization as they knew it. As the country fell into civil war and near anarchy, the people sought out in word and action how to preserve what could still be preserved or to create new political, …
The Rump Parliament 1648-53
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 1977
838 kr
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The Rump Parliament was brought to power in 1648 by Pride's Purge and forcibly dissolved by Oliver Cromwell in 1653. This book is a detailed account of the intervening years. Dr Worden concentrates particularly on the Rump's policies in the contentious fields of legal, religious and electoral …
Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution
Av Ian Gentles, John Morrill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1861 kr
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This collection of essays examines the struggles of the people of England with the collapse of civilization as they knew it. As the country fell into civil war and near anarchy, the people sought out in word and action how to preserve what could still be preserved or to create new political, …
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Av Blair Worden
E-bok, 2015
369 kr
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Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, …
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Av Blair Worden
E-bok, 2015
373 kr
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Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century. His scholarly interests ranged widely – from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, …
Excellencie of a Free State
Or, the Right Constitution of a Commonwealth
Av Marchamont Nedham, Blair Worden
Inbunden, 2012
266 kr
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First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian news book Mercurius Politicus, "The Excellencie of a Free State" addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? One possibility was to revert to …
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Av Blair Worden
Häftad, 2020
352 kr
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Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as …
Excellencie of a Free-State
Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth
Av Marchamont Nedham, Blair Worden
E-bok, 2012
82 kr
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This edition brings back into print, after two and a half centuries, the pioneering work of English republicanism, Marchamont Nedham’s The Excellencie of a Free-State , which was written in the wake of the execution of King Charles I. First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written …
