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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 …
Memory and the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Early Modern England
The dissolution of the monasteries was recalled by individuals and communities alike as a seismic rupture in the religious, cultural, and socio-economic fabric of early modern …
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 …
Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760
Wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660–1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power …
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
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 …
Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
Crime and law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England attempts to reach further than …
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 …
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 …
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 …