Gentry culture and the politics of religion: Cheshire on the eve of civil war

✍ Scribed by Richard Cust; Peter Lake

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 390
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I The Cheshire gentry and their world
The culture of dynasticism
The culture of the Cheshire gentleman
The governance of the shire
Part I conclusion
Part II The Personal Rule and its problems
Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s
Puritans and ecclesiastical government
Part II conclusion
Part III The crisis, 1641–42
Petitioning and the search for settlement
The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?
Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war
Part III conclusion
Bibliography of manuscript sources
Index

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