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God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell

Autor Blair Worden
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2013
The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; and new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660.Its theme is the relationship between the beliefs or convictions of politicians and their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the workings of divine providence affected political conduct; Cromwell's commitment to liberty of conscience and his search for godly reformation through educational reform; the constitutional premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for supremacy between parliamentary and military rule; and the relationship between conceptions of civil and religious liberty. The conflicts Worden reconstructs are placed in the perspective of long-term developments, of which many historians have lost sight. The final chapters turn to the guiding convictions of two writers at the heart of politics, John Milton and the royalist Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously published essays, much of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with newly written chapters to bring fresh evidence and argument to a period of lively debate and interest.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199675418
ISBN-10: 0199675414
Pagini: 434
Dimensiuni: 162 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

this is a vibrant and compelling examination of the (religiously informed and shaped) government and politics of the English republic and of its charismatic leading figure, Oliver Cromwell.

Notă biografică

Blair Worden studied at Pembroke College Oxford and Harvard before becoming a Research Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge and then Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College Cambridge. He then returned to Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor in History at St Edmund Hall from 1974 to 1995. He was Professor of History at Sussex from 1996 to 2003 and Research Professor of History at Royal Holloway College London from 2005-11. He has taught and has been Fletcher Jones Foundation Professor at the Huntingdon Library in California. He was Literary Director of the Royal Historical Society from 1986 to 1990, and British Academy Research Professor from 2000-2003.