Hakutulokset: modern history
Etsimme kuitenkin kirjoja hakusanalla modern history , mikä antoiyhteensä 103 hakutulosta
Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c.1640–1649
‘Constitutional royalism’ is one of the most familiar yet least often examined of all the political labels found in the historiography of the English Revolution. This book fills a …
Sermons at Court
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 …
George Lawson's 'Politica' and the English Revolution
This is the first full account, analysis and subsequent history of George Lawson’s Politica, 1660–89. For long accepted as a significant figure, through his criticism of Hobbes and …
Henry Parker and the English Civil War
This is the first full study in fifty years of the author of the most celebrated political tract of the early years of the English Civil War, Observations upon Some of His …
The Bishops' Wars
King Charles I twice mobilised England in an attempt to enforce religious uniformity in Scotland, and both times he failed. The result was the resurgence of Parliament as partner …
Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule
This study of the character and policies of Charles I provides an analysis of the political crisis leading to his personal rule in England during the years before the civil wars. …
Godly Reading
This innovative study explores the history of Puritanism and the history of reading in the long seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of significant but understudied source …
The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland
Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just …
Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions
This is the first modern intellectual biography of the Scottish Covenanters’ great theorist Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600–1661). The central focus is on Rutherford’s political thought …
The English Reformation and the Laity
This book examines the effects of the English Reformation on the full spectrum of lay religion from 1540 to 1580 through an investigation of individuals and parishes in …