God's Fury, England's Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Fury, England's Fire write by Michael Braddick. This book was released on 2008-02-28. God's Fury, England's Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God’s Fury, England’s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the king’s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God – that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, ‘God’s fury’ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick’s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides. The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic – events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding – were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country’s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. God’s Fury, England’s Fire allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.
God's Fury, England's Fire. Or a Plaine Discovery of Those Spirituall Incendiaries, which Have Set Church and State on Fire... Delivered in Certaine Fast-exercises, by John Benbrigge...
God's Fury, England's Fire. Or a Plaine Discovery of Those Spirituall Incendiaries, which Have Set Church and State on Fire... Delivered in Certaine Fast-exercises, by John Benbrigge... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God's Fury, England's Fire. Or a Plaine Discovery of Those Spirituall Incendiaries, which Have Set Church and State on Fire... Delivered in Certaine Fast-exercises, by John Benbrigge... write by John Benbrigge. This book was released on 1646. God's Fury, England's Fire. Or a Plaine Discovery of Those Spirituall Incendiaries, which Have Set Church and State on Fire... Delivered in Certaine Fast-exercises, by John Benbrigge... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales
The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales write by Jacqueline Eales. This book was released on 2012-07. The County Community in Seventeenth Century England and Wales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt, who advanced the fruitful notion of the county community during the 17th century, this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt's influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political engagement in civil war Kent and an assessment of numerous midland and southern counties as well as Wales, this record evaluates the extraordinary impact of Everitt's book and the debate it provoked. Comprehensive and enlightening, this collection suggests future directions for research into the relationship between the center and localities in 17th-century England.
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland write by Michael J. Braddick. This book was released on 2017. Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation, and the languages of politics. One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as well as the exploration of why andhow different sorts of people engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern England.No one has done more to define these agendas for early modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely influential, and at its heart has been the analysis of the political agency of ordinary people. The essays in thisvolume engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics during the English revolution. This outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and behaviour more generally. MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is professor of history at the Universityof Sheffield. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle, Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood, Keith Wrightson.
Sinister Aesthetics
Sinister Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sinister Aesthetics write by Joel Elliot Slotkin. This book was released on 2017-06-22. Sinister Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period’s literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through these discussions, the book introduces the concept of “sinister aesthetics”: artistic conventions that can make representations of the villainous, monstrous, or hellish pleasurable.
