The Yorkshire Gentry from the Reformation to the Civil War
Author: John Trevor Cliffe
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
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Atlas of the English Civil War
Author: P.R Newman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-20
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1134644744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe English Civil War is a subject which continues to excite enormous interest throughout the world. This atlas consists of over fifty maps illustrating all the major - and many of the minor - bloody campaigns and battles of the War, including the campaigns of Montrose, the battle of Edgehill and Langport. Providing a complete introductory history to the turbulent period, it also includes: * maps giving essential background information * detailed accompanying explanations * a useful context to events.
The Puritan Gentry
Author: J. T. Cliffe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1000222977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men and women who risked all in opposition to King Charles I. The book looks at the role played by gentry families in the advancement or defence of ‘true religion’, and considers the reasons why powerful families which helped to govern the counties were to be found among the godly. It explores the conflict between class values and the exacting demands of an austere religious philosophy and examines the relationship between the Puritan gentry and the clerical Puritans who included authors, university dons, schoolmasters, lecturers and parish clergy.
Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651
Author: Stanley D. M. Carpenter
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780714655444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is a study of military leadership and resulting effectiveness in battlefield victory focusing on the parliamentary and royalist regional commanders in the north of England and Scotland in the three civil wars between 1642 and 1651.
Chapters from the Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 2, Rural Society: Landowners, Peasants and Labourers, 1500-1750
Author: Joan Thirsk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-03
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521368834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaterial from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, in paperback with new introductions.
The Making of the Jacobean Regime
Author: Diana Newton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780861932726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new look at the beginning of James VI and I's reign in England, arguing for a reappraisal of his capabilities as a monarch. The early years of the reign of James VI and I have been much examined, but this book takes a new approach, via an overall survey rather than focussing on what are traditionally perceived as the most important moments, such as theHampton Court Conference and the Gunpowder Plot. This enables the author to show how circumstances and events immediately after James' accession were crucial to shaping his approach to ruling England, and provides a fresh understanding of his reign in England. Unusually, the book draws on both English and Scottish sources, governmental and ecclesiastical, and makes extensive use of central and local records, in order to illustrate how the king managed the Elizabethan legacy he inherited by reference to his Scottish experience. The author argues that after initial misunderstandings, James proved himself to be a king of real political acumen, as he supervised foreign policy, finance, local government and religious policy in England whilst simultaneously ruling Scotland as an absentee monarch. DIANA NEWTON is Research Fellow at the University of Teeside.
Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660
Author: Ann Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-16
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780521520157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the Civil War in Warwickshire, examining administration, religion and politics in their social context. The focus is mainly on the landed élite, but the importance of relationships between members of the élite and their social inferiors is also stressed. Early chapters discuss the economic and social character of Warwickshire; a middle section examines the onset of the Civil War in 1642; and finally there is a discussion of the economic impact of the war and the administrative, political and religious changes of the 1640s and 1650s, culminating in an assessment of the significance of the Restoration. Dr Hughes takes a critical approach to recent historiography, and challenges the concept of a 'county community'. The book is intended as a contribution to a general understanding of the Civil War, rather than as a study of one particular county.
The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England
Author: Peter Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521520089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the flourishing market for horses in pre-industrial England.
Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660
Author: Alison Shell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-07-08
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1139425382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton, those whose presence in the canon has been more fitful, and many who have escaped the attention of literary critics. Among the themes to emerge are the anti-Catholic imagery of revenge tragedy and the definitive contribution made by Southwell and Crashaw to the post-Reformation revival of religious verse in England. Alison Shell offers a fascinating exploration of the rhetorical stratagems by which Catholics sought to demonstrate simultaneous loyalties to the monarch and to their religion, and of the stimulus given to the Catholic literary imagination by the persecution and exile so many of these writers suffered.
A Social History of Education in England
Author: John Lawson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 1134531958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.
