A magnificent new study of the political crisis that produced the
overthrow of King Charles I, and came to engulf all three Stuart
kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland - in war during the
1640s. John Adamson's book traces the careers and fortunes of the
small group of English noblemen who risked their lives and fortunes
to challenge the king's attempt to create an authoritarian monarchy
in the Stuart kingdoms during the 1630s. What was achieved in 1641
astonished - and alarmed - contemporaries: the trial and execution
of the king's most powerful minister; a new, and sometimes violent,
phase of religious reformation; the drastic curbing of the powers
of the Crown; the planning of a major Anglo-Scottish military
intervention in the Thirty Years' War. The threat of war was rarely
absent and the resort to armed force come to seem a viable, perhaps
even the only, means of resolving the conflicts within the Stuart
realms.
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