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‘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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Through stories of lustful and incestuous rulers, of republican revolution and of unnatural crimes against family, seventeenth-century Englishmen imagined the problem of tyranny …
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 …
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 …