Read more
This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents.
List of contents
The centre, heart and head of the West - Exeter before the Civil War; zealous to advance God's glory - Ingnatius Jurdain and the puritan dynamic; the times grow more dangerous - descent into war; rebel city - parliamentarian Exeter; "reduced into the power of his sacred majestie" - royalist Exeter; close begirt - the final siege; conclusion; documents; tables.
About the author
Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.
Summary
This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents.
