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England's Wars of Religion, Revisited (Hardcover, New Ed)
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England's Wars of Religion, Revisited (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The causes and nature of the civil wars that gripped the British
Isles in the mid-seventeenth century remain one of the most studied
yet least understood historical conundrums. Religion, politics,
economics and affairs local, national and international, all
collided to fuel a conflict that has posed difficult questions both
for contemporaries and later historians. Were the events of the
1640s and 50s the first stirrings of modern political
consciousness, or, as John Morrill suggested, wars of religion?
This collection revisits the debate with a series of essays which
explore the implications of John Morrill's suggestion that the
English Civil War should be regarded as a war of religion. This
process of reflection constitutes the central theme, and the
collection as a whole seeks to address the shortcomings of what
have come to be the dominant interpretations of the civil wars,
especially those that see them as secular phenomena, waged in order
to destroy monarchy and religion at a stroke. Instead, a number of
chapters present a portrait of political thought that is defined by
a closer integration of secular and religious law and addresses
problems arising from the clash of confessional and political
loyalties. In so doing the volume underlines the extent to which
the dispute over the constitution took place within a political
culture comprised of many elements of fundamental agreement, and
this perspective offers a richer and more nuanced readings of some
of the period's central figures, and draws firmer links between the
crisis at the centre and its manifestation in the localities.
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