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Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century
Dreaming of Another Game
Inbunden, 2009
1224 kr
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Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry Neville as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville’s political thought from the English Civil Wars to the …
Social World of Early Modern Westminster
Abbey, Court and Community, 1525–1640
Inbunden, 2005
1263 kr
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Early modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of the town during this crucial period in its …
Londinopolis
Essays in the cultural and social history of Early Modern London c. 1500– c.1750
Av Paul Griffiths, Mark Jenner
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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Events such as the fire of London and the Plague, and locations like the Globe, are part of our ‘national heritage’ however until recently the history of London between 1500 and 1750 has been little studied. As a city London underwent exceptional changes - its population soared from around 50,000 …
Charitable Hatred
Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500–1700
Häftad, 2008
371 kr
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Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth …
politics of the public sphere in early modern England
Public Persons and Popular Spirits
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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This book uses the notion of the public sphere to produce a new view of the history of England in the post reformation period, tracing its themes from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. The contributors, who are all leaders in their own fields, bring a diverse range of approaches to bear on …
Leicester and the Court
Essays on Elizabethan Politics
Av Simon Adams
Häftad, 2002
394 kr
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Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most important essays looking at the Elizabethan …
Aspects of English Protestantism C.1530–1700
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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During the sixteenth century, England underwent a religious revolution. This book examines the reverberations of this Protestant Reformation, which continued to be felt until at least the end of the seventeenth century. Brings together twelve essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, …
Communities in Early Modern England
Networks, place, rhetoric
Av Alexandra Shepard, Philip Withington
Häftad, 2000
382 kr
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This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the early modern world - through bringing together a range of fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in the public sphere. Divided into three parts the book looks at:the importance of place – ranging from the …
Reading Ireland
Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland
Inbunden, 2005
1156 kr
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This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, …
spoken word
Oral culture in Britain, 1500–1850
Av Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf
Häftad, 2003
427 kr
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Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. …
Catholics and the ‘Protestant Nation’
Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England
Av Ethan Shagan
Inbunden, 2005
1199 kr
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This book brings together leading historians of Catholicism and other notable historians of early modern English society in order to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography, and to ask readers to suspend their assumptions and prejudices about the nature of Catholic …
Cromwell's major-generals
Godly government during the English Revolution
Häftad, 2001
382 kr
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The first full-scale study of the rule of Cromwell’s major-generals over England and Wales during 1655 and 1656. This is a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the present day. Contains chapters on the three most …
Brave Community
The Digger Movement in the English Revolution
Av John Gurney
Inbunden, 2007
1263 kr
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This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began …
Brave community
The Digger Movement in the English Revolution
Av John Gurney
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard …
Courtship and constraint
Rethinking the making of marriage in Tudor England
Av Diana O'Hara
Häftad, 2002
382 kr
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The first study of early modern English courtship as a subject in its own right. New historical and anthropological insights into the making of marriage, and an arresting and exciting contribution to the history of the family. Takes the interpretation of the English church court material to a new …
Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
The career and writings of Peter Heylyn
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. Newly available in paperback, it provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which Laudian and royalist polemical literature was created, tracing continuities and changes …
Literature and Politics in the English Reformation
Häftad, 2012
509 kr
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This book is a study of the English Reformation as a political and literary event. Focusing on an eclectic group of texts, unified by their explication of the key elements of the cultural history of the period 1510–80 the book unravels the political, poetic and religious themes of the era. Through …
origins of the Scottish Reformation
Av Alec Ryrie
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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The Scottish Reformation of 1560 is one of the most controversial events in Scottish history, and a turning point in the history of Britain and Europe. Yet its origins remain mysterious, buried under competing Catholic and Protestant versions of the story. Drawing on fresh research and recent …
Black Tom
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution
Häftad, 2007
394 kr
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Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not …
1630s
Interdisciplinary essays on culture and politics in the Caroline era
Av Ian Atherton, Julie Sanders
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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This is an exciting collection of essays on the rule of Charles I at a time of fundamental importance to English history. It combines the work of historians with academics from literary studies to provide an interdisciplinary examination of the culture and political life of the decade. The chapters …
‘No historie so meete’
Gentry culture and the development of local history in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
Av Jan Broadway
Häftad, 2012
382 kr
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This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England …
Deism in Enlightenment England
Theology, Politics, and Newtonian Public Science
Inbunden, 2009
1227 kr
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This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment. While there have been many recent studies of the deist John Toland, the writings of other contemporary deists have been forgotten. With …
Impostures in Early Modern England
Representations and Perceptions of Fraudulent Identities
Av Tobias Hug
Inbunden, 2010
1156 kr
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Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first full-scale analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon. Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of …
Reading and Politics in Early Modern England
The Mental World of a Seventeenth-Century Catholic Gentleman
Av Geoff Baker
Inbunden, 2010
1263 kr
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This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset.Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He …
Republican learning
John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696–1722
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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This book explores the life, thought and political commitments of the free-thinker John Toland (1670-1722). Studying both his private archive and published works, it illustrates how Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad. It explores the connections …
Boxmaker's Revenge
'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London
Av Peter Lake
Häftad, 2001
371 kr
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This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640.Through Denison …
Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’
Religious politics and identity in early modern England
Av Ethan Shagan
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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This book brings together leading historians of Catholicism and other notable historians of early modern English society in order to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography, and to ask readers to suspend their assumptions and prejudices about the nature of Catholic …
Political passions
Gender, the family and political argument in England, 1680–1714
Av Rachel Weil
Häftad, 2008
382 kr
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Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and …
Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714
Inbunden, 2012
1188 kr
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The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture under the later Stuarts. …
Royalists and Royalism During the Interregnum
Av Jason McElligott, David L. Smith
Inbunden, 2010
1337 kr
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What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell’s Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade of the 1650s (or, ‘the Interregnum’, from …
