The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary event in British history. Examining key issues surrounding the regicide, Clive Holmes looks at how a country descended into civil war.
Warning-pieces -- Prelude to war: fore-runners of destruction -- Civil war: these troublesome and distracted times -- Cavaliers and roundheads: the divells agents still -- Christian astrology: amongst the celestial hieroglyphicks -- Sectarians and recusants: "recant" those dange…
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Irel…
"In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Cole…
Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England
by Read, Sophie
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"Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in E…
