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1.i THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early
modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars of
the Three Kingdoms of the 1640s has undergone a series of
historiographical revisions. The dramatic events during that
century were marked by a religious struggle that produced a
Protestant nation, divided internally, yet clearly opposed to Rome.
Likewise the political environment instilled a sense of responsible
awareness regarding the administration of the realm and the defense
1 of constitutional liberty. Whig Historians from the nineteenth
century described 2 these changes as a "Puritan Revolution."
Essentially this was England's inevitable 3 march towards
enlightenment as a result t of religious and political maturation.
Subsequent Marxist historians attributed these radical changes to
socio-economic 4 factors. Britain was witnessing the decline of the
medieval feudal system and the rise of a new capitalist class. Both
of these early views claimed that brewing social, political and
economic unrest culminated in extreme radical action. More
recently, beginning in the 1980s, new studies appeared that began
to challenge these old assumptions. Relying on careful archival
research, many of these studies discarded the former conception of
this period as "revolutionary," instead 5 arguing that the
Reformation was in fact a gradual and unpopular process. In 1 Margo
Todd (ed.) Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in
Early Modern England (London and New York, 1995), p. 1. 2 S. R.
Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution (London,
1876).
1.i THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early
modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars of
the Three Kingdoms of the 1640s has undergone a series of
historiographical revisions. The dramatic events during that
century were marked by a religious struggle that produced a
Protestant nation, divided internally, yet clearly opposed to Rome.
Likewise the political environment instilled a sense of responsible
awareness regarding the administration of the realm and the defense
1 of constitutional liberty. Whig Historians from the nineteenth
century described 2 these changes as a "Puritan Revolution."
Essentially this was England's inevitable 3 march towards
enlightenment as a result t of religious and political maturation.
Subsequent Marxist historians attributed these radical changes to
socio-economic 4 factors. Britain was witnessing the decline of the
medieval feudal system and the rise of a new capitalist class. Both
of these early views claimed that brewing social, political and
economic unrest culminated in extreme radical action. More
recently, beginning in the 1980s, new studies appeared that began
to challenge these old assumptions. Relying on careful archival
research, many of these studies discarded the former conception of
this period as "revolutionary," instead 5 arguing that the
Reformation was in fact a gradual and unpopular process. In 1 Margo
Todd (ed.) Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in
Early Modern England (London and New York, 1995), p. 1. 2 S. R.
Gardiner, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution (London,
1876).
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