Cust / Lake Gentry culture and the politics of religion

Cheshire on the eve of civil war
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1442-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cust, Richard

Lake, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: The Cheshire gentry and their world
1 The culture of dynasticism
2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman
3 The governance of the shire
Part I conclusion
Part II: The Personal Rule and its problems
4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s
5 Puritans and ecclesiastical government
Part II conclusion
Part III: The crisis, 1641–42
6 Petitioning and the search for settlement
7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?
8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war
Part III conclusion
Bibliography of manuscript sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lake Peter:
Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt UniversityRichard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham
Peter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee