Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion - Cheshire on the Eve of Civil War

Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: The Cheshire gentry and their world
1 The culture of dynasticism
2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman
3 The governance of the shire
Part I conclusion
Part II: The Personal Rule and its problems
4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s
5 Puritans and ecclesiastical government
Part II conclusion
Part III: The crisis, 1641-42
6 Petitioning and the search for settlement
7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?
8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war
Part III conclusion
Bibliography of manuscript sources
Index

About the author

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

Summary

Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Richard Cust, Richard Lake Cust, Peter Lake
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781526114402
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1440-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain; Politics, Culture and Society
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories