Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Britain - Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie

This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment.

List of contents

Introduction - Justin Champion and John Coffey and Tim Harris and John Marshall
Constitutional Royalism Re-considered: Myth or Reality? - Tim Harris
Teaching Political Thought in the Restoration Divinity Faculty: Avant-Garde Episcopacy, the Two Kingdoms, and Christian Liberty - Dmitri Levitin
Violence, Protest and Resistance: Marvell and the Experience of Dissent after 1670 - Justin Champion
Bulstrode Whitelocke and the Limits of Puritan Politics in Restoration England - Jacqueline Rose
The Assassination of Archbishop Sharp: Religious Violence and Martyrdom in Restoration Scotland - John Coffey
Compassing Allegiance: Sir George Mackenzie and Restoration Scottish Royalism - Clare Jackson
Corruption and Regeneration in the Political Imagination of John Locke - S.-J. Savonius-Wroth
Locke the Censor, Locke the Anti-Censor - Geoff Kemp
London, Locke, and 1690s Provisions for the Poor in Context: Beggars, Spinners, and Slaves - John Marshall
The Reception of Locke's Politics: Locke in the République des Lettres - Delphine Soulard
Court Culture and Godly Monarchy: Henry Purcell and Sir Charles Sedley's 1692 Birthday Ode for Mary II - Hannah Smith
Thanksgivings and the Signs of the Times: The Apocalypse in the Long Eighteenth Century - Warren Johnston
The 'Secret Reformation' and the Origins of the Scottish Catholic Enlightenment - Gabriel Glickman
The Surprising Lineage of Useful Knowledge - Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
The Vicissitudes of Innovation: Confessional Politics, the State and Philosophy in Early Modern England - Conal Condren
Mark Goldie Bibliography

About the author

Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall

Summary

This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris, Dmitri Levitin, John Marshall
• Assisted by: Justin Champion (Editor), John Coffey (Editor), Tim Harris (Editor), Tim (Customer) Harris (Editor), Tim Harris and John Marshall (Editor), John Marshall (Editor), Professor John (Royalty Account) Marshall (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781783274505
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-450-5
• No. of pages: 363
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History; Studies in Early Modern Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Englisch, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien