1st Edition

Into Another Mould Change and Continuity in English Culture 1625–1700

Edited By T. G. S. Cain, Ken Robinson Copyright 1992
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

It is widely agreed that the period from 1625 to 1700 witnessed radical shifts in English life and thought. For historians of politics, science, religion, and philosophy, it is a time when the intellectual bases of modern thought and modern institutions were in the process of formation: divine monarchy gave way to contractual monarchy, the ‘truths’ of received authority gave way to those reached... Read more

1. Introduction  2. English politics 1625–1700  3. From faith to faith in reason? Religious thought in the seventeenth century  4. The book of nature  5. The visual arts and architecture in Britain 1625–1700  6. Conclusion: another pattern. Seventeenth-century Britain revisited.

Biography

T. G. S. Cain is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. His area of expertise is early modern English literature.

Ken Robinson, at the time of the first publication, was Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He is now a psychoanalyst, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, an Honorary Member of the Polish Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Society, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis in Northumbria University.