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The Rule of Moderation - Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)
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The Rule of Moderation - Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)
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Why was it that whenever the Tudor-Stuart regime most loudly
trumpeted its moderation, that regime was at its most vicious? This
groundbreaking book argues that the ideal of moderation, so central
to English history and identity, functioned as a tool of social,
religious and political power. Thus The Rule of Moderation rewrites
the history of early modern England, showing that many of its key
developments - the via media of Anglicanism, political liberty, the
development of empire and even religious toleration - were defined
and defended as instances of coercive moderation, producing the
'middle way' through the forcible restraint of apparently dangerous
excesses in Church, state and society. By showing that the
quintessentially English quality of moderation was at heart an
ideology of control, Ethan Shagan illuminates the subtle violence
of English history and explains how, paradoxically, England came to
represent reason, civility and moderation to a world it slowly
conquered.
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