Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688

Religion, Politics, and Ideas
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-78327-736-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 344 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed. Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside constitutional battles within secular politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldie, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Theory of Royal Sovereignty

2. The Theory of Religious Intolerance

3. The Reception of Thomas Hobbes

4. Danby, the Bishops, and the Whigs

5. Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism

6. Toleration and the Godly Prince

7. Toleration and the Huguenots

8. Andrew Marvell's Adversaries

9. Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism

10. William Lawrence and the Case for King Monmouth

11. Sir Peter Pett, Sceptical Toryism, and the Science of Toleration

12. The Political Thought of the Anglican Revolution

13. John Locke and Anglican Royalism
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Goldie, Mark
Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.