1st Edition

The Court and the Country The Beginning of the English Revolution

By Perez Zagorin Copyright 1969
382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

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 produced the revolution and conditioned its course. It explains the revolution primarily as a result of the breakdown of the unity of the governing... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Social Structure and the Court and the Country  3. The Court  4. The Country  5. The Citizen Element  6. Puritanism  7. The Country and the Constitutional Revolution  8. The End of the Country  9. Parliamentarians and Royalists – the Civil War  10. Conclusion

Biography

Perez Zagorin