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Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Post-revisionism and the history of practices in the early modern British world

Part I: Political and religious practices

Stealing bibles in early modern London

Printed English-language Bible concordances to c. 1640 and intentions for lay Bible use

In the company of merchants: Edward Sherburne, the East India Company, and the transformation of Stuart political practices

Consensual conflict in the early Stuart House of Commons

John Hacket's Scrinia Reserata and the oral history of early Stuart England

'Man of moderation': the Restoration bishop of Norwich

Hoadly the high and Sacheverell the low: religious and political celebrity in post-revolutionary England

Part II: British, European, and Atlantic dimensions

The Nine Years' War in Ireland (1594-1603) as problem of government

Luisa de Carvajal, her 'Life', and the place of women in Counter-Reformation politics

Of gods and beasts: the many bodies of James VI and I

Empire of heresy: Samuel Gorton, Gerrard Winstanley, and the London roots of transatlantic revolutionary religion

Index

Great Britain > History > Tudors, 1485-1603.

Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714.

Great Britain > Politics and government > 1485-1603.

Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.

Great Britain > Church history > 16th century.

Great Britain > Church history > 17th century.

Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1485-1603 (Tudors)

Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1603-1714 (Stuarts)

Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1485-1603.

Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1603-1714.

Grande-Bretagne > Histoire religieuse > 16e siecle.

Grande-Bretagne > Histoire religieuse > 17e siecle.

Church history.

History.

Project Muse. distributor.

Project Muse. distributor