1st Edition

Conflict in Early Stuart England Studies in Religion and Politics 1603-1642

By Richard Cust, Ann Hughes Copyright 1989
    282 Pages
    by Routledge

    282 Pages
    by Routledge

    This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

    List of abbreviations.  Preface.  1. Introduction: after Revisionism Richard Cust and Ann Hughes.  2. Ideology, property and the constitution Johann Sommerville.  3. Anti-poverty: the structure of prejudice Peter Lake.  4. England and the Spanish Match Thomas Cogswell.  5. Politics and the electorate in the 1620s Richard Cust.  6. Court policies of the 1630s Andrew Foster.  7. Church policies of the 1630s Andrew Foster.  8. Local history of the origins of the Civil War Ann Hughes.  Suggestions of further reading.  Notes on contributors.  Index

    Biography

    Richard Cust, Ann Hughes