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Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought.

"This book traces the emergence of a distinctive kind of gendered policing out of older structures of law enforcement and local government, a process which took place in fits and starts over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It does not provide a comprehensive account of the ways in which early modern law enforcement was shaped by gender. The focus is narrower but it is set in a wide analytical frame, drawing inspiration from feminist scholarship on the shifting relationship between gender and the state, especially Carole Pateman's idea of a transition from paternal to fraternal forms of male power"--

This study of the character and policies of Charles I provides an analysis of the political crisis leading to his personal rule in England during the years before the civil wars. It fills a gap in the historical literature of the period by integrating ideological with political developments and English with international affairs. It is also a contribution to the wider European history of a critical phase of the Thirty Years War. The book offers a new way of understanding Charles by demonstrating how ill-suited his personality was to the workings of the political world. It also argues that Charles's innovatory rule created a new pattern of national politics deeply destructive in its effects. The book gives a gripping account of the king's willingness to pervert the due process of law in dealing with his political opponents, as well as investigating his failures in religious and foreign policy.

Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt, with many motivated by a fear of financial failure rather than a desire for upward social mobility. This study examines the role that debt insecurity played within society, and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned it.

Providing new insights into the history of the English Reformation and the role of the Ten Commandments, this book covers topics such as monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and puritanism and popular religion. It will be ideal for anyone with an interest in the history or theology of Tudor England.

This book is a major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern and early Enlightenment Europe. John Marshall studies late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in Europe and the arguments that John Locke made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'.

Explores the dynamics of opinion politics in the era of Reformation and Anglo-Scottish union - a period of religious and constitutional tension - through protestations, petitions, oaths, oral and written modes of public communication, offering a historicised understanding of public opinion and its rise in prominence.

This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique ways in which adherence to the movement shaped women's lives, as well as the ways in which female Friends transformed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture.

How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking.

Pre-Civil War English political culture was shaped by an extensive pamphlet literature, which has remained unknown due to its handwritten form. Drawing from book history and the history of political thought, Noah Millstone reconstructs the world of manuscript pamphleteering to explain how contemporaries came to see their world as political.

London was the early modern world's most polluted city, and its dependence on coal had profound consequences for public health, the environment, and ultimately politics and culture. William M. Cavert presents a detailed study of how inhabitants and travelers accommodated themselves to London's smoky air.

For readers interested in early modern England and the Reformation, this book sheds new light on radical Protestant views of reform and godly identity. It significantly revises our understanding of central episodes and issues in the English Reformation, the nature of early English Protestantism and the development of Puritanism.

Examining the reception of Socinian ideas in England and their role in Royalist and Parliamentarian debates, this book provides a significant rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution. It demonstrates the interplay between theological ideas and political events and the strong intellectual connections between England and Europe.

Exploring 'honour politics' in the early modern period, Brendan Kane reveals that honour played a powerful role in determining the character of Anglo-Irish society, politics and cultural contact, and brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of English imperialism in Ireland and of the Irish responses to it.

This groundbreaking study examines the careers and political thinking of Elizabethan martial men, whose ambitions were thwarted by a quietist foreign policy. The book also considers its consequences for military rule in Ireland, and presents a lively and sophisticated reinterpretation of this complex, controversial subject.

Oaths were the medium through which the Henrician regime implemented its ideology and secured loyalty among the people and the tool by which the English people embraced, resisted and manipulated royal policy. By considering the central importance of oaths, Jonathan Michael Gray offers new insights into the English Reformation.

An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the politics of religion in later Stuart England and its global empire. William J. Bulman provides a novel account of how the onset of globalization and the end of Europe's religious wars transformed English intellectual, religious and political life.

Long regarded as inept, pedantic, and whimsical, King James VI and I, king of Scotland and England is shown here as an astute and far-sighted statesman who achieved a permanent union between his two kingdoms and a stable European community.

This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the crown, Parliament and common law during the Restoration and how the institutional, legal and ideological framework of supremacy perpetuated the language of godly kingship after 1660.

Drawing on a wide range of significant but understudied source materials, Andrew Cambers seeks to advance our understanding of Puritan or 'godly' culture in the long seventeenth century. Moving beyond existing interpretations, the author opens up fresh discussions and debates about the nature of early modern reading and religion.

This book shows how liberal education transformed the political and religious culture of early modern Britain. Rather than pursue vainglorious warfare, humanists taught monarchs, including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James VI, and Charles I, to wield their pens like swords to extend their imperial authority over church and state.

Jason Peacey's study reassesses the communications revolution of the seventeenth century, demonstrating how new media - from ballads to pamphlets and newspapers - transformed the public's ability to understand and take part in national political life. This ultimately involved experience-led attempts to rethink the nature of representation and accountability.

John Foxe's Acts and Monuments - popularly known as the 'Book of Martyrs' - is a milestone in the history of the English book. Based on little-used manuscript sources, this unique study explores the production of this seminal product of the English Reformation.

Throughout Christian history, the sermon has been a key means of transmitting religious ideas. This book was the first to assess the effectiveness of the sermon as a means of spreading Protestant ideas in early modern England by focusing on how sermons were interpreted by their audience.

In late seventeenth-century England, female writers from diverse religious and political traditions confronted the question of women's subordination. Examining this formative period in the debate over sexual difference, Sarah Apetrei argues that far from being a constraining influence on feminism, religion stimulated new thinking about the status of women.

This is a study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centred around preaching, and is concerned with competing forms of evangelism between humanists of the Roman Catholic Church and emerging forms of Protestantism. It is about 'God's Word' and sixteenth-century spirituality, and explores shifts in political power towards Protestantism.

London and the Restoration integrates the history of the kingdom with that of its premier locality in the era of Dryden and Locke.

From the 1650s, the Quaker movement was unusually prolific in its use of the printing press. This book explores the early Quaker leaders' use of printed tracts, how they were produced, distributed and read, and how they were used as part of a dynamic campaign for religious and political liberty.