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The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696 (Hardcover)
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The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of
religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision
of the role of religion in politics and public life. Until now,
scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in
the conflicts of the 1640s, with discussion of the Covenants after
1660 mostly limited to the context of violent Scottish radicalism.
This book moves beyond a rigid focus on Scotland to explore the
legacy of the Covenants in England. It examines the discourse
surrounding key events in the Restoration period and traces the
influence of the Covenants in the context of radical
Presbyterianism, and in mainstream debates around politics, church
government, and the constitution of the British kingdoms. The
Covenants continued to have relevance in two primary respects.
Firstly, the Covenants were used as reference points for discussing
the competing legacies of the English and Scottish Reformations and
the confused issues of church and state that defined the
Restoration period. Furthermore, the form of the Covenants as
solemn individual subscriptions to a constitutional and religious
model, and the political ideas that underpinned them, were emulated
by those seeking to resist royal authority during the Exclusion
Crisis of 1679-81, and during the events surrounding the Revolution
of 1688. Thus, this book holds particular interest for students of
constitutionalism, legal pluralism or civil religion in
seventeenth-century Britain, and for those seeking to deepen their
understanding of the intellectual origins of the Wars of the Three
Kingdoms and the Revolution of 1688-9.
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