Jonathan Scott

England's Troubles (eBook, PDF)

Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context

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Produktbeschreibung

In this path-breaking study, first published in 2000, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive: that experience of political instability which contemporaries called 'our troubles'. The second was creative: its spectacular intellectual consequence in the English revolution. The third was reconstructive: the long restoration voyage toward safe haven from these terrifying storms. Driving the troubles were fears and passions animated by European religious and political developments. The result registered the impact upon fragile institutions of powerful beliefs. One feature of this analysis is its relationship of the history of events to that of ideas. Another is its consideration of these processes across the century as a whole. The most important is its restoration of this extraordinary English experience to its European context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511037337
• Artikelnr.: 38214478

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction: experience other than our own; 1. The shape of the seventeenth century; Part I. England's Troubles, 1618
89: Political Instability: 2. Taking contemporary belief seriously; 3. The unreformed polity; 4. Reformation politics (1) 1618
41; 5. Counter-reformation England; 6. Reformation politics (2) 1637
6; 7. Restoration memory; 8. Restoration crisis 1678
83; 9. Invasion 1688
9; Part II. The English Revolution 1640
89: Radical Imagination: 10. The shape of the English Revolution; 11. Radical reformation (1): the power of love; 12. Radical reformation (2): outward bondage; 13. Radical renaissance (1): after monarchy; 14. Radical renaissance (2): republican moral philosophy and the politics of settlement; 15. Radical restoration (1): the subjected plaine; 16. Radical restoration (2): the old cause; Part III. Restoration 1660
1702: Reconstruction and Statebuilding: 17. Restoration process; 18. First restoration 1660
78; 19. 'Second Restauration' 1679
85; 20. Third restoration 1688
94; 21. Anglo-Dutch statebuilding.