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First edition of an eye-witness account of seventeenth-century
England - the dark side of Pepys. Seven-volume set. Compiled
between the years 1677 and 1691, the Entring Book is 900,000 words
long, with many sensitive passages written in a secret shorthand
that has only recently been decoded. This remarkable chronicle of
public affairs has remained for nearly three centuries, secure but
little known, in Dr Williams's Library, London. The Entring Book
fits no simple definition. It is not just a political diary, nor is
it only the newsletter it sometimes resembles.It's possible that it
could have been the material for a history of Morrice's own times,
or it may have been a letterbook, recording correspondence to an
unnamed recipient. Writing in great detail, with meticulous
regularity, Morrice may have been passing on all he knew to senior
figures in the opposition to Charles II and James II. The Entring
Book's enormous scope means it also covers publishing, plays,
business, military and religious matters, foreign affairs, public
opinion and London life, making it an essential resource. Through
it we can trace the transformation of puritanism into Whiggery and
Dissent. This seven volume set includes an introductory and an
index volumeas well as a biographical encyclopedia of names.
What did people in Restoration England think the correct
relationship between church state should be? And how did this
thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised
and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores
the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book
assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how
the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how
Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the
power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how
the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed.
Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era
between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the
English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of
emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of
competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of
religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside
constitutional battles within secular politics.
Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the
political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent
era of later Stuart rule. An exceptionally significant monograph,
and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field
of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has
done more than anyone else to illuminate the political and
religious assumptions of late seventeenth-century Englishmen.' Dr
Grant Tapsell, University of Oxford. Roger Morrice and the Puritan
Whigs explains a movement, illuminates the world of its emblematic
representative, and explores one of the most remarkable documents
of the seventeenth century. Morrice's Entring Book was supremely
well-informed, passionately committed, and relentlessly
opinionated. Chronicling the years 1677 to 1691, nearly a million
words in length, it is the fullest surviving record of the
tumultuous final years of the Stuart regime, from the Popish Plot
and Exclusion Crisis to the Glorious Revolution. Morrice was a
Puritan clergyman turned confidential reporter for leading Whig
politicians, a barometer of opinion, for whom reliable information
was vital for public action. Just twenty years after Pepys's Diary,
the Entring Book depicts a darker England, gripped by a new crisis
of 'popery and arbitrary government'. Mark Goldie's deeply
considered book examines the fortunes of Puritanism in the later
Stuart age. It offers a story of disillusion and diminuendo,
ofstruggles for survival in the face of intolerance, and of
self-understanding among those who hoped to transform England
through 'Godly rule'. Yet the book also tells a countervailing
story of revitalized and transformed Puritanism. Puritans worked
through parliament, the royal court, and the households of gentry,
merchants, lawyers, and clergy. Setting out to galvanize civil
society, they mobilized public opinion, organized electorates, and
deployedthe arts of journalism, influence, and persuasion. This
book has been adapted, with a new substantial introduction and
updated bibliography, from the first volume of the Entring Book of
Roger Morrice. Mark Goldie is Professor of Intellectual History at
the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College.
The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public
spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how
constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials
provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England.
The more important of these trials attracted substantial public
attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the
state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among
legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted
their independence from judges. In political history, the
government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this
period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the
Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial'
emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of
political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It
investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the
creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the
publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had
become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined
how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist
pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the
later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.
Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed
varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition
draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction,
headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is
suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the
eighteenth century.
Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed
varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition
draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction,
headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is
suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the
eighteenth century.
Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed
varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition
draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction,
headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is
suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the
eighteenth century.
Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed
varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition
draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction,
headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is
suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the
eighteenth century.
Henry St John, First Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) enjoyed
varied political and literary careers. This five-volume edition
draws together his letters. It includes a general introduction,
headnotes, biographical index and a consolidated index. It is
suitable for historians and literary scholars working in the
eighteenth century.
Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be
accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new
research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and
invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that
transformed Britain and its empire. There has been an explosion of
interest in the 'Glorious' Revolution in recent years. Long
regarded as the lesser of Britain's seventeenth-century
revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of
mid-century, itis now coming to be seen as a major transformative
episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a
distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new
light on the final crisis of the Stuart monarchy by re-examining
the causes and implications of the dynastic shift of 1688-9 from a
broad chronological, intellectual and geographical perspective.
Comprising eleven essays by specialists in the field, it ranges
from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the
history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and
not only covers England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the
Atlantic and European contexts. Encompassing high politics and low
politics, Tory and Whig political thought, and the experiences of
both Catholics and Protestants, it ranges from protest and
resistance to Jacobitism and counter-revolution and even offers an
evaluation of British attitudes towards slavery. Written in a
lively and engaging style and designed to be accessible to a
broader audience, it combines new research with the latest
scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the
revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire. TIM
HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at
Brown University STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in the History of
Early Modern England and Head of Department at Durham University.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Locke has iconic status as the founder of Western liberalism. His
Two Treatises of Government (1689) is a classic discussion of
liberty, rights, constitutionalism and revolution. He is heralded
as an honorary Founding Father of the American Constitution, and
has been deployed by liberationist movements in many lands. Yet
there is a bitter quarrel between conservatives and liberals who
dispute Locke's legacy. Locke also wrote about property and the
market, and many hail him as the original philosopher of
capitalism. It has been said the Cold War was about whether the
ideas of Locke or Marx should prevail. But his legacy is contested
here also. Social democrats claim that free marketeers have misread
him. These controversies were embedded in Locke's reception from
the outset.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Locke has iconic status as the "founder of Western liberalism", yet
his legacy is contested by both conservatives and social democrats.
These volumes contain over 60 important texts, with scholarly
annotation and explanatory headnotes, that debate Locke's political
ideas.
Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be
accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new
research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and
invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that
transformed Britain and its empire. There has been an explosion of
interest in the "Glorious" Revolution in recent years. Long
regarded as the lesser of Britain's seventeenth-century
revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of
mid-century, itis now coming to be seen as a major transformative
episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a
distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new
light on the final crisis of the Stuart monarchy by re-examining
the causes and implications of the dynastic shift of 1688-9 from a
broad chronological, intellectual and geographical perspective.
Comprising eleven essays by specialists in the field, it ranges
from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the
history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and
covers not just England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the
Atlantic and European contexts. Covering high politics and low
politics, Tory and Whig political thought, and the experiences of
both Catholics and Protestants, it ranges from protest and
resistance to Jacobitism and counter-revolution and even offers an
evaluation of British attitudestowards slavery. Written in a lively
and engaging style and designed to be accessible to a broader
audience, it combines new research with the latest scholarship to
provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary
period that transformed Britain and its empire. TIM HARRIS is
Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at Brown
University. STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in the History of Early
Modern England at Durham University. Contributors: Toby Barnard,
Tony Claydon, John Gibney, Lionel K.J. Glassey, Gabriel Glickman,
Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, John Marshall, Alasdair Raffe, Owen
Stanwood, Stephen Taylor
'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to
preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.'
Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great
classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the
foundational text of modern liberalism. In it Locke insists on
majority rule, and regards no government as legitimate unless it
has the consent of the people. He sets aside people's ethnicities,
religions, and cultures and envisages political societies which
command our assent because they meet our elemental needs simply as
humans. His work helped to entrench ideas of a social contract,
human rights, and protection of property as the guiding principles
for just actions and just societies. Published in the same year, A
Letter Concerning Toleration aimed to end Christianity's wars of
religion and called for the separation of church and state so that
everyone could enjoy freedom of conscience. In this edition of
these two major works, Mark Goldie considers the contested nature
of Locke's reputation, which is often appropriated by opposing
political and religious ideologies. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive
overview of the development of western political thought during the
European enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of
international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in
a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the
principal reference source for the history of political thought.
Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is
covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and
the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further
reading, and brief biographical notes of the major characters in
the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume. Of
interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and
history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this
volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all
periods in the development of western thinking about politics, man
(and increasingly woman), and society.
John Locke (1632-1704) is perhaps the greatest philosopher in the English language. A political activist in a revolutionary age, Locke's prolific correspondence opens up the cultural, social, intellectual, and political worlds of the later Stuart era. Spanning half a century, the letters trace the transition from Puritanism to the Enlightenment. A man of insatiable curiosity, Locke's letters encompass science (his correspondents include Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle), education, travel, religion, and the birth of the British empire.
This book brings together a comprehensive collection of the writings of one of the greatest philosophers in the Western tradition. Along with five of John Locke's major essays, seventy shorter essays are included that stand outside the canonical works that Locke published during his lifetime. For the first time students will be able to fully explore the evolution of Locke's ideas concerning the philosophical foundations of morality and sociability, the boundary of church and state, the shaping of constitutions, and the conduct of government and public policy.
This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive
overview of the development of western political thought during the
European Enlightenment. Written by a distinguished team of
international contributors, this Cambridge History is the latest in
a sequence of volumes that is now firmly established as the
principal reference source for the history of political thought.
Every major theme in eighteenth-century political thought is
covered in a series of essays at once scholarly and accessible, and
the essays are complemented by extensive guides for further
reading, and brief biographical notes of the major characters in
the text, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume. Of
interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics and
history at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards, this
volume chronicles one of the most exciting and rewarding of all
periods in the development of western thinking about politics, man
(and increasingly woman), and society.
The companion volume to the highly successful Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought, this book presents a comprehensive account of the development of European political thinking through the Renaissance and the Reformation to the "scientific revolution" and political upheavals of the seventeenth century. Recent decades have seen intensive historical investigation and reappraisal in this field. Many established perspectives have changed; and while it would still be generally accepted that something distinctly "modern" took shape in the political thought of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there have been important changes in our understanding of what is "medieval" and what is "modern" and of the relationship between these concepts. A highly distinguished team of contributors present a unique, authoritative guide to these developments. Full bibliographical and biographical information is provided for those wishing to pursue specific topics in greater detail.
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