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Laudian and Royalist Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England - The Career and Writings of Peter Heylyn (Paperback)
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Laudian and Royalist Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England - The Career and Writings of Peter Heylyn (Paperback)
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
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This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and
controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. It
provides for the first time a detailed analysis of the ways in
which Laudian and royalist polemical literature was created,
tracing continuities and changes in a single corpus of writings
from 1621 through to 1662. In the process, the author presents
important new perspectives on the origins and development of
Laudianism and 'Anglicanism' and on the tensions within royalist
thought. Milton's book is neither a conventional biography nor
simply a study of printed works, but instead constructs an
integrated account of Peter Heylyn's career and writings in order
to provide the key to understanding a profoundly polemical author.
Early chapters trace Heylyn's career in the 1620s when his Laudian
credentials were far from evident, and his years as the main
official spokesman for the religious policies of Charles I's
personal rule. Further chapters trace his actions in the 1640s as
the target of a vengeful parliament, editor of the main royalist
newsbook and an increasingly disillusioned pamphleteer; his
remarkable attempted rapprochement with Cromwell in the 1650s; and
his attempts to shape the Restoration settlement and his posthumous
celebrity as a spokesman of the Anglican royalist position.
Throughout the book, Heylyn's shifting views and fortunes prompt an
important reassessment of the relative coherence and stability of
royalism and Laudianism. Historians of early modern English
politics and religion and literary scholars will find this book
essential reading.
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