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Sexual Politics In Revolutionary England

by Sam Fullerton

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 This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640â€"60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond. -- .
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Bloodsuckers Of The Commonwealth - Monopolies, Petitioning, And The Public Sphere In Early Modern England

by Dr Ellen Paterson

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 This book examines anti-monopoly petitioning activity in England between 1590-1625. It reveals that the growth of monopolies and issuing of new charters was an integral issue triggering subjects to engage in politics. It adds a new dimension to scholarly understandings of popular political culture at the turn of the century. -- .
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Sexual Politics In Revolutionary England

by Sam Fullerton

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 Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom’s mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civility and decorum. During the early 1640s, however, graphic sex-talk exploded into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture.
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Reformed Identity And Conformity In England, 1559-1714

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 This volume is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on how Reformed theology and ecclesiology related to one of the most consequential issues between the Elizabethan Settlement (1559) and the Hanoverian Succession (1714), namely conformity to the Church of England. This volume enriches scholarly understandings of how Reformed identity was understood in the Tudor and Stuart periods, and how it influenced both clerical and lay attitudes towards the English Church’s government, liturgy and doctrine. In a reflection of how established religion pervaded all aspects of civic life in the early modern world and was sharply contested within both ecclesiastical and political spheres, this volume includes chapters that focus variously on the ecclesio-political, liturgical, and doctrinal aspects of conformity.
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Anticlerical Legacies - The Deistic Reception Of Thomas Hobbes, C. 1670-1740

by Elad Carmel

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 Anticlerical legacies is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Thomas Hobbes’s ideas by the English deists and freethinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. One of the most important English philosophers of all time, Hobbes’s theories have had an enduring impact on modern political and religious thought. This book offers a new perspective on the afterlife of Hobbes’s philosophy, focusing on the readers who were most sympathetic to his critical and radical ideas in the decades following his death. It investigates how Hobbes’s ideas shaped the English anticlerical campaign that peaked in the early eighteenth century and that was essential for the emergence of the early Enlightenment. The book shows that a large number of writers - Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others - were more Hobbesian than has ever been appreciated. Not only did they engage consistently with Hobbes’s ideas, they even invoked his authority at a time when doing so was highly unpopular. Most fundamentally, they carried on Hobbes’s war against the kingdom of darkness and used various Hobbesian weapons for their own war against priestcraft. Analysing the ways in which the deists and freethinkers developed their nuanced theories and conducted their heated dialogues with the orthodoxy, they emerge from this study as sophisticated and valuable theorists in their own right. The case of Hobbes and his successors demonstrates that anticlericalism was a key component of a much larger programme whose primary aim was to secure civil harmony, peace, and stability.
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Witnessing To The Faith - Absolutism And The Conscience In John Donne’S England

by Shanyn Altman

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 This study utilises John Donne’s works concerning the Jacobean Settlement as a contextualised case study to examine a seriously pressing issue in contemporary society: the issue of Catholic loyalism post-1603 and the disputes that thistopic sparked over the matter of conformity.Altman examines Donne’s polemic in line with the vast expanse of literature relating to the pamphlet war and situates Donne’s arguments within a strong contemporary tradition of conformist thought. Within this context, the study argues that Donne articulated a theory of royal absolutism that would have struck home with many contemporaries who, whether Catholic or not, were faced with a regime determined to bring them into conformity. It further contends that the religio-political standpoint represented by Donne was not only fairly obvious to the English state but was also widely accepted by it.
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Intelligence And Espionage In The English Republic C. 1600-60

by Alan Marshall

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 This ambitious and important book is a richly detailed account of the ideas and activities in the early-modern ‘secret state’ and its agencies, spies, informers and intelligencers, under the English Republic and the Cromwellian protectorate. The book investigates the meanings this early-modern Republican state acquired to express itself, by exploring its espionage actions, the moral conundrums, and the philosophical background of secret government in the era. It considers in detail the culture and language of plots, conspiracies, and intrigues and it also exposes how the intelligence activities of the Three Kingdoms began to be situated within early-modern government from the Civil Wars to the rule of Oliver Cromwell. It introduces the reader to some of the personalities who were caught up in this world of espionage, from intelligencers like Thomas Scot and John Thurloe to the men and women who became its secret agents and spies. The book includes stories of activities not just in England, but also in Ireland and Scotland, and it especially investigates intelligence and espionage during the critical periods of the British Civil Wars and the important developments which took place under the English Republic and Oliver Cromwell in the 1650s. The book will appeal to historians, students, teachers, and readers who are fascinated by the secret affairs of intelligence and espionage.
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Religion And Politics In Elizabethan England - The Life Of Sir Christopher Hatton

by Neil Younger

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 This book provides a full account of the life and career of the Elizabethan politician and courtier Sir Christopher Hatton. A loyal favourite and minister of a Protestant queen, he was also a patron and protector of Catholics. This account of Hatton opens a new window into the complex religious politics of Elizabethâ€™s reign. -- .
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Gentry Culture And The Politics Of Religion - Cheshire On The Eve Of Civil War

by Peter Lake e Richard Cust

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 Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective. -- .
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Church Polity And Politics In The British Atlantic World, C. 1635-66

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 This volume explores church polity and its relationship to politics in the British Atlantic world during the mid-seventeenth century. It addresses the conflicts between church and state, the ecclesial factions of episcopalianism, presbyterianism and congregationalism and the effects of these conflicts at the level of nations and localities. -- .
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Theatre And Empire - Great Britain On The London Stages Under James Vi And I

by Tristan Marshall

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 This book looks at the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James I and VI. It does this by studying two things: the political language of the King's project to replace England, Scotland and Wales with a single kingdom of Great Britain and cultural representations of empire on the public and private stages. -- .
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Loyalty, Memory And Public Opinion In England, 1658-1727

by Edward Vallance

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 This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern â€˜public sphereâ€™. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national â€˜moodâ€™. -- .
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Revolution Remembered - Seditious Memories After The British Civil Wars

by Edward Legon

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 This book examines â€˜seditious memoriesâ€™ in the Restoration period. It reveals the social depth of opposition to the Stuarts and the Church of England, and asks why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing their resistance in public. -- .
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Battle-Scarred - Mortality, Medical Care And Military Welfare In The British Civil Wars

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 Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. -- .
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Reformation Without End - Religion, Politics And The Past In Post-Revolutionary England

by Robert G. Ingram e Robert Ingram

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 Reformation without end conceives of eighteenth-century English history as a late chapter in the nationâ€™s long Reformation. Contemporaries thought that the Reformation had caused two bloody seventeenth-century English revolutions. -- .
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Doubtful And Dangerous - The Question Of Succession In Late Elizabethan England

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 Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabethâ€™s reign -- .
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Britain'S Lost Revolution? - Jacobite Scotland And French Grand Strategy, 1701-8

by Daniel Szechi

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 Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century. -- .
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Chaplains In Early Modern England - Patronage, Literature And Religion

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 A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England. -- .
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News And Rumour In Jacobean England - Information, Court Politics And Diplomacy, 1618-25

by David Coast

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 Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James Iâ€™s reign. -- .
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The Cooke Sisters - Education, Piety And Politics In Early Modern England

by Gemma Allen

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 A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. -- .
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The Levellers - Radical Political Thought In The English Revolution

by Rachel Foxley

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 Offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Foxley challenges received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalization of parliamentarian thought. -- .
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Westminster 1640-60 - A Royal City In A Time Of Revolution

by J. F. Merritt

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 Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .
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Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) And The Patriotic Monarch - Patriarchalism In Seventeenth-Century Political Thought

by Cesare Cuttica

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 Looks at one of the most unpopular and criticised thinkers in the history of political thought, to provide an illuminating and innovative picture of Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) and patriarchalism. This thoroughly researched work will appeal to all those interested in early modern politics and ideas. -- .
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Deism In Enlightenment England - Theology, Politics, And Newtonian Public Science

by Jeffrey R Wigelsworth e Jeffrey Wigelsworth

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 This is the first complete study of English deists as a group in several decades and it argues for a new interpretation of deism in the English Enlightenment. -- .
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