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ISBN:
9780511522550
Content:
This collection of essays examines the struggles of the people of England with the collapse of civilization as they knew it. As the country fell into civil war and near anarchy, the people sought out in word and action how to preserve what could still be preserved or to create new political, religious and social certainties. The authors discuss individuals or groups who were soldiers, writers or statesmen of the Civil Wars or the Interregnum, people who were at the centre of power or in more humble and localized circumstances. All of the authors take their inspiration from the work of Austin Woolrych, whose own books and articles focus on these very questions. This volume is published in his honour
Content:
Secret alliance and Protestant agitation in two kingdoms: the early Caroline background to the Irish Rebellion of 1641 -- Of armies and architecture : the employments of Robert Scawen -- George Digby, Royalist intrigue and the collapse of the cause -- The iconography of revolution: England 1642-1649 -- The casualties of war: treatment of the dead and wounded in the English Civil War -- 'A bastard kind of militia', localism, and tactics in the second civil war -- Cromwell's commissioners for preserving the peace of the Commonwealth: a Staffordshire case study -- Colonel Gervase Benson, Captain John Archer and the corporation of Kendal, c. 1644-c. 1655 -- Repacifying the polity : the responses of Hobbes and Harrington to the 'crisis of the common law' -- Equality in an unequal commonwealth : James Harrington's republicanism and the meaning of equality -- John Milton and Oliver Cromwell -- From pillar to post : Milton and the attack on republican humanism at the Restoration -- 'They that pursew perfaction on earth ... ' : the political progress of Robert Overton -- Locke no Leveller
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521591201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521038751
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521591201
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511522550
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