Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003694083)
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manninghams Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library,...Loe edasi...
In this collection, leading scholars address John Morrills suggestion the constitutional conflict that wracked the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century was fuelled primarily by religious beliefs, rather than secular political ideas. The ess...Loe edasi...
By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & Is life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England an...Loe edasi...
Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period....Loe edasi...
The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. The Early Modern volume begins with Eastern and Western Europe and moves through the Ottoman Empire, South and East Asia, Africa and ends in Central...Loe edasi...
A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution (1954) examines the large range of political doctrines which played their part in the English revolution a period when modern democratic ideas began....Loe edasi...
The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640. It describes the origin and development of the revolution, and gives an account of the various factors political, social and religious that produ...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1987, this book compares and contrasts the characters and careers of two great protagonists in the English Civil War and its aftermath. The book shows how Charles I and Oliver Cromwell were confronted with the same problems a...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1952 but here reissuing the updated edition of 1978, this book has long been established as a classic and a central text for students of seventeenth-century English history. The book covers every aspect of English life from t...Loe edasi...
The Blackwells as radicals, merchants, financiers and administrators illustrate the importance of kinship, the development of the early modern state in London and the ownership of the memory of the civil wars across a century of wars and revolutions...Loe edasi...
The essays brought together in this first, edited collection to be devoted specifically to the memory of the Civil Wars, provides a clear and accessible introduction to this fast-developing field of study, bringing together a diverse group of schola...Loe edasi...
This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1955 and based on research of public records and other contemporary sources, this book builds up an excellent picture of England before the Civil War. Through a series of case studies, it examines the type of person who emigr...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for a further reformation....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1988, and the companion book to The Puritan Gentry, covering the period of the Civil War, the English republic and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, this book gives an account of how the godly interest of the Puritans di...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social c...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968, the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading), trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1930 this book focusses on the social and economic developments of the Puritan revolution aspects which are often overlooked in favour of the political. Using archival resources, this study shows that the period 1640-1660 wa...Loe edasi...
