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  • - Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London c. 1500- C.1750
     
    350,-

    In this history of early modern London, the essays range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption.

  • av Elad Carmel
    1 156,-

    This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.

  • - Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity
    av David Appleby
    290,-

    Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain

  • - Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland
    av Raymond Gillespie
    326 - 1 180,-

    An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland -- .

  • av Neil Younger
    526 - 1 130,-

    Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585-1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of military change. -- .

  • - The mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman
    av Geoff Baker
    326 - 1 150,-

    This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society.

  • - A Royal City in a Time of Revolution
    av J. F. Merritt
    530,-

    Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

  • av John Walter
    326,-

    This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period -- .

  • - Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680-1714
    av Rachel Weil
    326,-

    Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. This book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested.

  • - 'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London
    av Peter Lake
    386,-

    Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. This book studies puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute. It also studies lay clerical relations and the politics of the parish.

  • - Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700
    av Alexandra Walsham
    386,-

    Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- .

  • av Nicholas Tyacke
    340,-

    This volume brings together 12 essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689.

  • - Public Persons and Popular Spirits
     
    326,-

    Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England. -- .

  • - Godly Government During the English Revolution
    av Christopher Durston
    350,-

    This is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.

  • - Networks, Place, Rhetoric
    av Alexandra Shepard
    350,-

    How were cultural, political and social identities formed in the early modern period? This book looks at community and networks, the importance of place and the value of rhetoric in generating "community".

  • - Essays on Elizabethan Politics
    av Simon Adams
    416,-

    A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. -- .

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    1 216,-

    This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression. -- .

  • - Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850
     
    350,-

    Discussing the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the Early Modern period, this text examines English, Scottish and Welsh oral culture to provide a pan-British study, covering tradition, memories of the civil war, mechanics for settling debts and more.

  • - Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars
     
    386,-

    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. -- .

  • - Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8
    av Daniel Szechi
    526 - 1 260,-

  • - Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England
     
    1 190,-

    This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .

  • - Alternative Models of the Church in Britain and Ireland, C.1570-C.1700
     
    1 896,-

    This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland. -- .

  • - Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era
     
    276,-

    An exciting collection of essays on the 'personal rule' of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war -- .

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    1 156,-

    This volume offers a variety of fresh and exciting perspectives on Royalist politics, religion and culture during the Interregnum. Between them, these essays are an important milestone in the recovery of the Royalist experience of the 1650s. -- .

  • - The Digger Movement in the English Revolution
    av John Gurney
    326 - 1 130,-

    A full-length modern study of the Diggers, among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. Provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in recent years amongst historians, literary scholars, theologians and environmental activists.

  • - Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
    av Patrick Collinson
    340 - 1 150,-

    A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.

  • - Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England
     
    326,-

    This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .

  • - Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640
    av J. F. Merritt
    280 - 1 280,-

  • - Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution
    av Andrew & QC Hopper
    310,-

    It was 'Black Tom' Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, who created and commanded Parliament's New Model Army during the English Civil War. This is his first biography by a modern academic. -- .

  • - Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England
    av Isaac Stephens
    1 130,-

    A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period. -- .

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