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The English Civil War was a time of disruption, suffering and
persecution for many people, not least the clergy of the
established church, who found themselves ejected from their livings
in increasing numbers as Parliamentarian forces extended their
control across the country. Yet, historians have tended to downplay
their suffering, preferring in most cases to concentrate instead
upon the persecution suffered by dissenters after the Restoration.
Drawing upon an impressive array of sources - most notably the
remarkable set of family and parish memories collected by John
Walker in the early years of the eighteenth century - this book
refocuses attention on the experiences of the sequestered loyalist
clergy during the turbulent years of the 1640s and 1650s. The study
highlights how the experiences of the clergy can help illuminate
events in wider society, whilst at the same time acknowledging the
unique situation in which Church of England ministers found
themselves. For although the plundering, imprisonment and personal
loss of the clergy was probably indicative of the experiences of
many ordinary people on middle incomes, the ever present religious
dimension to the conflict ensured particular attention was paid to
those holding religious office. During the war and interregnum,
zealous religious reformers attacked every aspect of established
religion, targeting both existing institutions and those who
supported them. Clergy were ejected on an unprecedented scale,
suffering much violence and persecution and branded as 'malignants'
and 'baal's priests'. By re-examining their history, the book
offers a balanced assessment of the persecution, challenging many
preconceptions about the ejected loyalists, and providing new
insights into the experiences and legacies of this influential
group.
The English Civil War was a time of disruption, suffering and
persecution for many people, not least the clergy of the
established church, who found themselves ejected from their livings
in increasing numbers as Parliamentarian forces extended their
control across the country. Yet, historians have tended to downplay
their suffering, preferring in most cases to concentrate instead
upon the persecution suffered by dissenters after the Restoration.
Drawing upon an impressive array of sources - most notably the
remarkable set of family and parish memories collected by John
Walker in the early years of the eighteenth century - this book
refocuses attention on the experiences of the sequestered loyalist
clergy during the turbulent years of the 1640s and 1650s. The study
highlights how the experiences of the clergy can help illuminate
events in wider society, whilst at the same time acknowledging the
unique situation in which Church of England ministers found
themselves. For although the plundering, imprisonment and personal
loss of the clergy was probably indicative of the experiences of
many ordinary people on middle incomes, the ever present religious
dimension to the conflict ensured particular attention was paid to
those holding religious office. During the war and interregnum,
zealous religious reformers attacked every aspect of established
religion, targeting both existing institutions and those who
supported them. Clergy were ejected on an unprecedented scale,
suffering much violence and persecution and branded as 'malignants'
and 'baal's priests'. By re-examining their history, the book
offers a balanced assessment of the persecution, challenging many
preconceptions about the ejected loyalists, and providing new
insights into the experiences and legacies of this influential
group.
Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern
Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal
boundaries and to undermine them. This interdisciplinary collection
considers the related topics of satire and laughter in early modern
Britain through a series of case studies ranging from the
anti-monastic polemics of the early Reformation to the satirical
invasion prints of the Napoleonic wars. Moving beyond the
traditional literary canon to investigate printed material of all
kinds, both textual and visual, it considers satire as a mode or
attitude rather than a literary genre and is distinctive in its
combination of broad historial range and thick description of
individual instances. Within an over-arching investigation of the
dual role of laughter and satire as a defence of communal values
and as a challenge to political, religious and social constructions
of authority, the individual chapters by leading scholars provide
richly contextualised studies of the uses of laughter and satire in
various settings - religious, political, theatrical and literary.
Drawing on some unfamiliar and intriguing source material and on
recent work on the history of the emotions, the contributors
consider not just the texts themselves but their effect on their
audiences, andchart both the changing use of humour and satire
across the whole early modern period and, importantly, the less
often noticed strands of continuity, for instance in the
persistence of religious tropes throughout the period. MARK KNIGHTS
is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. ADAM MORTON
is Lecturer in the History of Britain at the University of
Newcastle. Contributors: ANDREW BENJAMIN BRICKER, MARK KNIGHTS,
FIONA MCCALL, ANDREW MCRAE, ADAM MORTON, SOPHIE MURRAY, ROBERT
PHIDDIAN, MARK PHILP, CATHY SHRANK.
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