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London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

von: Elliot Vernon, Jason Peacey
139,99 €
Verlag:	Manchester University Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	28.09.2021
ISBN/EAN:	9781526157799
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	344

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Titelbeschreibung

This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at ‘reforming the Reformation’ by instituting presbyterianism in London’s parishes and ultimately the Church of England. The book analyses the movement’s political narrative and its relationship with its patrons in the parliamentarian aristocracy and gentry. It also considers the political and social institutions of London life and examines the presbyterians’ opponents within the parliamentarian camp. Finally, it focuses on the intellectual influence of presbyterian ideas on the political thought and polity of the Church and the emergence of dissent at the Restoration.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 The radicalisation of conformist puritanism, c. 1638–40 2 Smectymnuus and the attack on episcopacy in 1641 3 The emergence of the London presbyterian movement, 1642–3 4 London presbyterians and the fracture of parliamentarianism, 1644–5 5 The campaign for presbyterian church government, 1645–6 6 The political presbyterian moment, 1646–7 7 Presbyterian church government in the Province of London, 1646–60 8 The London presbyterians and the projected settlements of the British civil wars, 1647–9 9 ‘Mr Love’s case’ and the London presbyterian struggle against the English republic, 1649–51 10 Cromwellian Britain, c. 1653–9 11 The Restoration, 1659–60 12 Epilogue: the Cavalier Parliament, the Great Ejection of 1662 and the first years of dissent Conclusion Index

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Elliot Vernon is a barrister and a historian of seventeenth-century Britain

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London presbyterians and the British revolutionspresents a case study in the politics of religion during the middle decades of the seventeenth-century. The first full-length work on the London presbyterian movement of the period between 1638 and 1664, it locates the London presbyterians in the metropolitan, parliamentarian and British politics of the mid-seventeenth-century crisis. The book explores the presbyterian movement’s emergence in London from the collapse of Charles I’s monarchies, its influence on the parliamentarian political struggles of the civil war and Interregnum and the beginnings of Restoration nonconformity in London. Covering the political, intellectual and social history of the movement, it looks at the development of ideas of presbyterian church government and political theory, as well as investigating the London presbyterians’ mobilisation to establish their vision of reforming the Reformation. It also addresses the use of the ‘information revolution’ in the British revolution, analysing religious disputation, the political use of rumour and gossip and the interface between oral and written culture. Ultimately, the book argues that the London presbyterian movement, whose participants are often presented in historical writing as the foils of other individuals or groups, was critical to the political dynamic of the period. London presbyterians and the British revolutions fills a notable gap in the current historiography of the British revolutions, exploring a movement that, while often mentioned in historical analysis, has rarely been thoroughly explored.