Clarendon Reconsidered - Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674

List of contents

Introduction Philip Major 1. A Royalist Reads the News: Sir Edward Hyde and Civil War Journalism Jason Peacey 2. Edward Hyde and the Villiers Family Geoffrey Smith 3. Royalists in War and Peace: Clarendon and the Burdens of Loyalty Barbara Donagan 4. Clarendon Against Hobbes? Jon Parkin 5. "All Things Serious and Sacred": Clarendon as Essayist Martin Dzelzainis 6. The Life of Clarendon: History and Memoir in England and France Paul Seaward 7. "That Fatal Desolation": Toleration and Calamity Rehearsed in the Early Restoration Matthew Birchwood 8. "This Heavenly Exercise": Clarendon and the Psalms Philip Major

About the author

Philip Major is an Associate Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London.

Summary

Clarendon Reconsidered is a lively new account of a major figure in seventeenth-century British history, politics and literature. It reappraises the life and career of the foremost statesman of the Caroline court and the author of the History of the Rebellion, then and for long afterwards the most sophisticated history written in English.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Major, Philip (Birkbeck Major
• Assisted by: Philip Major (Editor), Philip (Birkbeck Major (Editor), Major Philip (Editor), Major Philip (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138693425
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69342-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, British & Irish history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), English Civil War, Civil wars