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The Making of an Imperial Polity
Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis
Inbunden, 2020
1420 kr
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Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status …
The Making of an Imperial Polity
Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled histories of colonialism and domestic status …
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 …
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 …
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660
Häftad, 2007
754 kr
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This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the seventeenth century's most notorious and sensational court scandal - the Overbury murder. The book challenges earlier approaches to the history of court scandal, rejecting both the assumption that it inevitably undermined royal …
The Gospel and Henry VIII
Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation
Av Alec Ryrie
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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During the last decade of Henry VIII's life, his Protestant subjects struggled to reconcile two loyalties: to their Gospel and to their king. This book tells the story of that struggle and describes how a radicalised English Protestantism emerged from it. Focusing on the critical but neglected …
Treason and the State
Law, Politics and Ideology in the English Civil War
Av D. Alan Orr
Häftad, 2007
820 kr
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This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford, in the …
The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland
Häftad, 2007
781 kr
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Early modern historians have theorized about the nature of the new 'British' history for a generation. This study examines how British politics operated in practice during the age of Mary, Queen of Scots, and explains how the crises of the mid-sixteenth century moulded the future political shape of …
Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
Häftad, 2007
687 kr
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Using a wide range of legal, administrative and literary sources, this study explores the role of the royal pardon in the exercise and experience of authority in Tudor England. It examines such abstract intangibles as power, legitimacy, and the state by looking at concrete life-and-death decisions …
The Politics of Social Conflict
The Peak Country, 1520-1770
Av Andy Wood
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based on a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire c.1520-1770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, …
Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England
Justice and Political Power, 1558-1660
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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This book offers an interesting interpretation of the hidden culture of the early modern legal profession and its influence on the development of the English constitution. It locates an alternative site of political sovereignty in the legal communities at the Inns of Court in London, examining the …
Stewards, Lords and People
The Estate Steward and his World in Later Stuart England
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent, for they were not confined to the countryside but penetrated into every borough and city. English society was composed largely of landlords and tenants. It follows that to understand the nature …
Prosecution and Punishment
Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725
Häftad, 2008
705 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 …
Catholicism and Community in Early Modern England
Politics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550-1640
Häftad, 2008
623 kr
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This is a study of the political, religious, social and mental worlds of the Catholic aristocracy from 1550 to 1640. Michael Questier examines the familial and patronage networks of the English Catholic community and their relationship to the later Tudors and Stuarts. He shows how the local history …
Preaching during the English Reformation
Av Susan Wabuda
Häftad, 2008
636 kr
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This is a study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centred around preaching, and is concerned with competing forms of evangelism between humanists of the Roman Catholic Church and emerging forms of Protestantism. More than any other authority, Erasmus refashioned the ideal of …
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2008
689 kr
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An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. …
Unquiet Lives
Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660-1800
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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Based on vivid court records and newspaper advertisements, this 2003 book is a pioneering account of the expectations and experiences of married life among the middle and labouring ranks in the long eighteenth century. Its original methodology draws attention to the material life of marriage, which …
Print Culture and the Early Quakers
Av Kate Peters
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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The early Quaker movement was remarkable for its prolific use of the printing press. Carefully orchestrated by a handful of men and women who were the movement's leaders, printed tracts were an integral feature of the rapid spread of Quaker ideas in the 1650s. Drawing on very rich documentary …
Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
Häftad, 2009
721 kr
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This book re-evaluates the nature of Elizabethan politics and Elizabeth's queenship in late sixteenth-century England, Wales and Ireland. Natalie Mears shows that Elizabeth took an active role in policy-making and suggests that Elizabethan politics has to be perceived in terms of personal relations …
Patterns of Piety
Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
Häftad, 2009
821 kr
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This 2003 book offers an interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation, and explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. Central to this is an appreciation of the significance of medieval Christocentric piety in offering a …
London and the Restoration, 1659-1683
Häftad, 2009
821 kr
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Articulate and restless London citizens were at the heart of political and religious confrontation in England from the Interregnum through the great crisis of Church and state that marked the last years of Charles II's reign. The same Reformed Protestant citizens who took the lead in toppling in …
The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2009
502 kr
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An original book examining the concept of the Devil in English culture between the Reformation and the end of the English Civil War. Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in human affairs changed as a consequence of the Reformation, and its …
Parliaments and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate
Av Patrick Little, David L. Smith
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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This volume provides a detailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments from September 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope, covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate Parliaments, the political and social nature of …
