Jason (Hrsg.) McElligott

Royalists and Royalism During the English Civil Wars

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Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century yet royalism has been largely neglected. This pioneering volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from the vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy b… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Smith, David L. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-87007-8
EAN: 9780521870078
Produktnummer: 3206044
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 569 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 569

Über den Autor

Jason McElligott is the J. P. R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early-Modern Printed Book at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (2007) and the editor of Fear, Exclusion and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s (2006). David L. Smith is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His previous publications include Cromwell and the Interregnum (2003) and, with Graham E. Seel, Crown and Parliaments, 1558-1689 (2001).