Gentry culture and the politics of religion
Cheshire on the eve of civil war
This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the county's governing elite and puritan religious establishment responded to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I's Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire in 1641-2. An important contribution to understanding the local…
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Weitere Autoren: Lake, Peter
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1443-3
- EAN: 9781526114433
- Produktnummer: 34309470
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'494 KB
- Abbildungen: 14 black & white illustrations, 3 maps
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Richard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of BirminghamPeter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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