Description
Book SynopsisThis book is about the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), while at the same time placing it in the context of a long seventeenth century - running from about 1590 to 1720.Leading experts explore this theme, with special reference to developments in politics, religion and society, at national and local level.
Table of ContentsPreface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction: locating the ‘English Revolution’
Nicholas Tyacke
2 The English Revolution and its legacies
Michael J. Braddick
3 ‘Patriots’ and ‘popular spirits’: narratives of conflict in early Stuart politics
Richard Cust
4 Religion and community in pre-civil war England
Anthony Milton
5 The queen is ‘a goggyll eyed hoore’: gender and seditious speech in early-modern
England
Andy Wood
6 Politicising the popular? The ‘tradition of riot’ and popular political culture in the
English Revolution
John Walter
7 Religious diversity in revolutionary London
Ann Hughes
8 Behemoth or civil war and revolution in English parish communities, 1641-1682
Dan Beaver
9 The King’s Book. Eikon Basilike and the English Revolution of 1649
Sean Kelsey
10 Public politics in England c.1675 - c.1715
Mark Knights
11 ‘My kingdom is not of this world’: the politics of religion after the Revolution
Justin Champion
