Hakutulokset: modern history
Etsimme kuitenkin kirjoja hakusanalla modern history , mikä antoiyhteensä 91 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 …
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 …
Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
This book traces the beginnings of a shift from one model of gendered power to another. Over the course of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, traditional practices of …
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. 1600–61). 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 …
The Rule of Manhood
Through stories of lustful and incestuous rulers, of republican revolution and of unnatural crimes against family, seventeenth-century Englishmen imagined the problem of tyranny …
On Laudianism
Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account establishes the theological roots and political resonances of Laudianism, and shows …
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
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 …