Description
This volume ranges widely across the social, religious and political history of revolution in seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, from contemporary responses to the outbreak of war to the critique of the post-regicidal regimes; from royalist counsels to Lilburne's politics; and across the three Stuart kingdoms. However, all the essays engage with a central issue - the ways in which individuals experienced the crises of mid seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland and what that tells us about the nature of the Revolution as a whole. Responding in particular to three influential lines of interpretation - local, religious and British - the contributors, all leading specialists in the field, demonstrate that to comprehend the causes, trajectory and consequences of the Revolution we must understand it as a human and dynamic experience, as a process. This volume reveals how an understanding of these personal experiences can provide the basis on which to build up larger frameworks of interpretation.
Table of Contents
JSM: a tribute to a friend Mark A. Kishlansky; Introduction: John Morrill and the experience of revolution Michael J. Braddick and David L. Smith; 1. The Scottish-English-Romish book: the character of the Scottish Prayer Book of 1637 Joong-Lak Kim; 2. Popery in perfection? The experience of Catholicism - Henrietta Maria between private practice and public discourse Dagmar Freist; 3. Sir Benjamin Rudyerd and England's 'wars of religion' David L. Smith; 4. Rhetoric and reality: images of Parliament as Great Council James S. Hart, Jr; 5. Cathedrals and the British Revolution Ian Atherton; 6. History, liberty, reformation and the cause: Parliamentarian military and ideological escalation in 1643 Michael J. Braddick; 7. Sacrilege and compromise: court divines and the king's conscience, 1642–1649 Anthony Milton; 8. Law, liberty, and the English Civil War: John Lilburne's prison experience, the Levellers and freedom D. Alan Orr; 9. On shaky ground: Quakers, Puritans, possession and high spirits Tom Webster; 10. James Harrington's prescription for healing and settling Jonathan Scott; 11. 'The Great Trappaner of England': Thomas Violet, Jews and crypto-Jews during the English Revolution and at the Restoration Ariel Hessayon; 12. The Cromwellian legacy of William Penn Mary K. Geiter; 13. Irish bishops, their biographers and the experience of revolution, 1656–1686 John McCafferty; 14. Religion and civil society: the place of the English Revolution in the development of political thought Glenn Burgess.
