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Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of the day-to-day public affairs in Britain. His 'Entering Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious hist
The Uses of History in Early Modern England
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English Church and State: A Short Study of Erastianism
A short study of Erastianism in the Church of England covering the period from the Norman Conquest to the Present Day
Conduct Literature and the Politics of the Stage Controversy, 1689-1728
Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy.In 1698 the Jacobite clergyman Jeremy Collier published his famous pamphlet in which he attacked a number of prominent playwrights on the grounds that their work contained profanity, blasphemy and indecency, and therefore was undermining public morality. He called for the closure of the stage, and in so doing sparked vigorous public debates that lasted for three decades. This book investigates the relationship between this Stage Controversy and the period of political instability ...
Thomas Fuller
Long considered a highly distinctive English writer, Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) has not been treated as the significant historian he was. Fuller's The Church-History of Britain (1655) was the first comprehensive history of Christianity from antiquity to the upheavals of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the tumultuous events of the English civil wars. His numerous publications outside the genre of history—sermons, meditations, pamphlets on current thought and events—reflected and helped to shape public opinion during the revolutionary era in which he lived. Thomas Fuller: Discovering England's Religious Past highlights the fact that Fuller was a major contributor to the floweri...
Scottish sketches
In "Scottish Sketches," Amelia E. Barr presents a vivid tapestry of Scotland's landscape, culture, and character through a series of compelling vignettes. Rich in descriptive imagery and imbued with a deep appreciation for the Scottish spirit, Barr's prose captures the essence of rural life and the complexities of human emotion. Writing in the late 19th century, a time marked by a growing interest in regional literature, Barr skillfully blends realism with romanticism, creating a narrative style that resonates with both affection and authenticity. Her keen observations of Scottish traditions, often juxtaposed with the encroachment of modernity, invite readers to reflect on the steadfastness ...
The Corpse as Text
Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English ...
Scottish Sketches
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Monarchy and Religion
'Monarchy and Religion' explores the religious dimension of kingship in 18th century Europe. By comparing the British, French, Russian, and some of the German monarchies it challenges assumptions about the desaralization of royal power during this period.
