From Deliverance To Destruction

Rebellion and Civil War in an English City
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-85989-478-4
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The book shows how Exeter's inhabitants first began to dissent from each other over religious issues, then became divided into two warring camps, and finally, after three years of bitter conflict, witnessed much of the ancient city being destroyed about their ears.

The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents. These have been specially selected to illuminate the war's effect on ordinary men and women, and to show how closely engaged they were with the national politico-religious debate. This book will be of interest to all serious students of the English Civil War, while at the same time being accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoyle, Mark

Stoyle, Mark, Prof.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The centre, heart and head of the West- Exeter before the Civil War

2. Zealous to advance God's glory - Ingnatius Jurdain and the puritan dynamic

3. The times grow more dangerous - descent into war

4. Rebel city: Parliamentarian Exeter; "reduced into the power of his sacred majesties"

5. Close begirt - the final siege

6. Conclusion

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Über Autor(innen)

Stoyle, Mark, Prof.
Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.