The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Religion
This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period.
Literary Collections
The Church of England, 1662-1714
January 2017
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The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume II Establishment and Empire, 1662 -1829
The series forms an invaluable reference for both scholars and interested non-specialists. Volume one of The Oxford History of Anglicanism examines a period when the nature of 'Anglicanism' was still heavily contested.
Religion
Revolutionary England, C.1630-c.1660 Essays for Clive Holmes
December 2016
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Edited book
Revolutionary England presents a series of cutting-edge interventions by established and rising authorities in the field. These are intended to honour one of the most respected scholars of early modern England.
'Parliament', 'liberty', 'taxation', and 'property': The civil war of words in the 1640s
December 2016
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Revolutionary England, C.1630-c.1660 Essays for Clive Holmes
Revolutionary England presents a series of cutting-edge interventions by established and rising authorities in the field. These are intended to honour one of the most respected scholars of early modern England.
Charles II's Commission for Ecclesiastical Promotions, 1681-4: A Reconsideration
October 2015
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Journal article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (RHE)
This article dissents from the classic analysis of the ‘commission for ecclesiastical promotions’ (1681–4) offered by Robert Beddard in 1967. Rather than acting as a powerful ‘instrument of tory reaction’, in the hands of a ‘reversionary interest’ of lay and clerical ‘Yorkists’ dedicated to changing the political hue of the upper ranks of the clergy, in reality it functioned as ‘an instrument of personal rule’ for a king who had not surrendered his own interests to those of his heir presumptive. Its political impact is queried with evidence from the start of James's reign that emphasises the immediate sense of crisis felt by many bishops.
The Reluctant Chaplain: William Sancroft and the Later Stuart Church
August 2013
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Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, literature and religion
Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious roles (conducting church services, offering spiritual advice and instruction) to a surprisingly wide array of literary functions (writing poetry, or acting as scribes and editors). Chaplains in early modern England: Patronage, literature and religion explores the important, but often neglected, contributions made by chaplains of different kinds - royal, episcopal, noble, gentry, diplomatic - to early modern English culture. Addressing a period from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, it focuses on chaplains from the Church of England, examining their roles in church and politics, and within both domestic and cultural life. It also shows how understanding the significance of chaplains can illuminate wider cultural practices - patronage, religious life and institutions, and literary production - in the early modern period.
The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited
June 2013
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New insights into the nature of the seventeenth-century English revolution - one of the most contested issues in early modern British history.
History
'A British patriarchy? Ecclesiastical imperialism under the later Stuarts
June 2013
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The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited: Essays in Honour of John Morrill
The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714
December 2012
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Book
The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into ...
History
Introduction: The Later Stuart Church in Context
November 2012
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The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714
The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture under the later Stuarts. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical and lay interests. Attention is also given to how the Church of England interacted with Protestant churches in Scotland, Ireland, continental Europe and colonial North America. A concluding section examines the difficult relationships and creative tensions between the established Church in England, Protestant dissenters, and Roman Catholics. The later Stuart Church is intended to be both accessible for students and thought-provoking for scholars within the broad early modern field.
Pastors, Preachers, and Politicians: The Clergy of the Later Stuart Church
November 2012
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The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714
The later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture under the later Stuarts.
Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical and lay interests. Attention is also given to how the Church of England interacted with Protestant churches in Scotland, Ireland, continental Europe and colonial North America. A concluding section examines the difficult relationships and creative tensions between the established Church in England, Protestant dissenters, and Roman Catholics.
The later Stuart Church is intended to be both accessible for students and thought-provoking for scholars within the broad early modern field.
The Later Stuart Church
January 2012
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Book
Royalism Revisited
September 2011
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Journal article
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Historical Journal
Laurence Hyde and the Politics of Religion in Later Stuart England
December 2010
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review
Religion has been increasingly reintegrated into the study of later seventeenth-century English politics. Nevertheless, historians of the later Stuart period have not displayed the same gusto for case studies of individuals’ careers as their colleagues working on the pre-civil war era. This article looks at the important role of religion within the career of Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester (1642-1711), a very significant but under-studied politician whose long career in public life stretched from the Restoration to the latter part of Anne’s reign. It is argued that a vital dimension of Hyde’s religious beliefs can be supplied by a detailed consideration of his family life. His father’s example, his sister’s conversion, a series of early deaths, and his relationships with his brother-in-law – James II – and nieces – Mary II and Anne – all combined to define Hyde’s public status. The interplay of these factors would lead to acute crisis in the winter of 1686/7, when his position as the protestant chief minister of a catholic king became untenable, and chronic discontent thereafter until his death in 1711.
Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture: Britain and Ireland, 1660-1714
November 2009
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This indispensable introductory guide offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question relating to the period 1660-1714, and uses artistic and literary sources – as well as more traditional texts of political history – to illustrate and illuminate arguments. George Southcombe and Grant Tapsell provide clear analyses of different aspects of the era whilst maintaining an overall coherence based on three central propositions:
• 1660-1714 represents a political world fundamentally influenced by the civil wars and interregnum
• the period can best be understood by linking together types of evidence too often separated in conventional accounts
• the high politics of kings and their courts should be examined within broader social and geographical contexts.
History
‘Weepe Over the Ejected Practice of Religion’: Roger Morrice and the Restoration Twilight of Puritan Politics
May 2009
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Journal article
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Parliamentary History
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
July 2007
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Internet publication
Gerard Langbaine the Younger
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16007?docPos=2
John Downes
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7974?docPos=7
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The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85
June 2007
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This book is concerned with political culture, government, and religion during the personal rule of Charles II, the period between the dissolution of his last English Parliament in 1681 and his death in 1685. The author argues that the nature of this phase of Stuart personal rule was different to that of Charles I in 1629-40. He discusses the nature of whig and tory politics during this crucial period in their formation as political parties, showing how they coped with the absence of a parliamentary forum. He also examines political life in the English localities, the growing importance of news dissemination in political life, and the politics of religious persecution and toleration. Scotland and Ireland are included in this analysis of Charles's rule, setting the discussion in a "Three Kingdoms" context.
History
Parliament and Political Division in the Last Years of Charles II, 1681–5*
October 2003
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Journal article
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Parliamentary History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
The Immortal Seven
Internet publication
Immortal seven (act. 1688) was a disparate group of English notables comprising William Cavendish, fourth earl of Devonshire, Henry Compton, bishop of London, Richard Lumley, Baron Lumley, Thomas Osborne, first earl of Danby, Edward Russell, Henry Sidney, and Charles Talbot, twelfth earl of Shrewsbury, who on 30 June 1688-probably at ...
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