1st Edition

Revolutionary England, c.1630-c.1660 Essays for Clive Holmes

Edited By George Southcombe, Grant Tapsell Copyright 2017
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Revolutionary England, c. 1630–c. 1660 presents a series of cutting-edge studies by established and rising authorities in the field, providing a powerful discourse on the events, crises and changes that electrified mid-seventeenth-century England. The descent into civil war, killing of a king, creation of a republic, fits of military government, written constitutions, dominance of Oliver... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Notes on contributors

1. Clive Holmes and the historiography of early modern England: The quiet revolution

2. Policy enforcement during the Personal Rule of Charles I: The Perfect Militia, Book of Orders, and Ship Money

3. Party politics in the Long Parliament, 16408

4. Henry Ireton and the limits of radicalism, 16479

5. 'Parliament', 'liberty', 'taxation', and 'property': The civil war of words in the 1640s

6. A trader of knowledge and government: Richard Houncell and the politics of enterprise, 164851

7. The uses of intelligence: The case of Lord Craven, 165060

8. The definition of treason and the offer of the crown

9. England’s ‘atheisticall generation’: Orthodoxy and unbelief in the revolutionary period

10. Thomas Ady and the politics of scepticism in Cromwellian England

11. The demand for a free parliament, 165960

12. The revolution of memory: The monuments of Westminster Abbey

13. 'A pair of garters': Heralds and heraldry at the Restoration

14. Remembering regicides in America, 16601800

Bibliography of the Writings of Clive Holmes, 19672014

Index

Biography

George Southcombe is Director of the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford, where he is also College Lecturer in History. His publications include English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660–1700 (editor, 3 volumes, 2012) and Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture: Britain and Ireland, 1660–1714 (2010, with Grant Tapsell).

Grant Tapsell is Fellow and Tutor in History, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. His publications include The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited (edited with Stephen Taylor, 2013); The Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714 (editor, 2012) and The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681–85 (2007).