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Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times (1613-1662)

Author : Jack H. Adamson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sir Harry Vane: His Life and Times (1613-1662) written by Jack H. Adamson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Emissary of Charles the First, second governor of Massachusetts, pillar of the Protectorate, and victim of Charles the Second, servant to a God of his own definition, humble and arrogant, atypical Puritan and passionate lover, Sir Harry Vane was a man of peace who initiated genocide in the New World and found martyrdom in the Old. His life in New and Old England, and on the continent, spanned eras of conformity, revolution and libertinism. His experience reaches from Indian wigwam to royal palace. This is an unparalleled picture of a formative age which is with us yet. Vane served Charles I well, if not wholly faithfully, and yet was one of the leaders of the parliamentary rebellion that led to the king's execution and the establishment of the Protectorate. Then, second only to Cromwell-and there were those who said he was even more powerful-Vane pursued his devious and dangerous path through the years of the Protectorate until he finally acquiesced in the restoration of Charles II. When Vane himself was executed in 1662, clearly the victim of judicial murder, the age of Puritan revolt was over. Sir Harry is one of the most elusive and tantalizing figures ever to have played an important part in both English and American history. He was as much a puzzle to his contemporaries as he has been to historians. Anthony Wood described him as "the Proteus of his Age"; Clarendon, less charitably, declared that "he was chosen to cozen and deceive a whole nation which excelled in craft and cunning"; and a commemorative statue of him in New England calls him "a true friend ...and a man of noble and generous mind." The few threads of consistency in his life emerge as belief in freedom of conscience, personal horror of violence, and loyalty to the integrity of Parliament. Adamson and Folland approach the paradox of Sir Harry face on and, placing their subject against a detailed background of his times, present us with a subtly shaded portrait that is both dramatic and convincing. Sir Harry lived in an age of great intellectual ferment and naked violence, of momentous political upheavals in England and the formation of an American character. By reflecting these turmoils in the life of their subject, the authors do much to resolve the enigma of his career and to rescue from the past one of the most fascinating and imposing figures of his time.”-Publisher.

Sir Henry Vane, Theologian

Author : David Parnham
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636817
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Sir Henry Vane, Theologian written by David Parnham and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-known to students of history as a leading political figure during the English Civil War and beyond, Vane is presented in this book as a formidable and articulate thinker. Author David Parnham sees Vane as a fascinating occupant of the rich intellectual world of the mid-seventeenth century.

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661

Author : Carla Gardina Pestana
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042077
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661 written by Carla Gardina Pestana and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. By 1660, the English Atlantic emerged as religiously polarized, economically interconnected, socially exploitative, and ideologically anxious about its liberties. War increased both the proportion of unfree laborers and ethnic diversity in the settlements. Neglected by London, the colonies quickly developed trade networks, especially from seafaring New England, and entered the slave trade. Barbadian planters in particular moved decisively toward slavery as their premier labor system, leading the way toward its adoption elsewhere. When by the 1650s the governing authorities tried to impose their vision of an integrated empire, the colonists claimed the rights of freeborn English men, making a bid for liberties that had enormous implications for the rise in both involuntary servitude and slavery. Changes at home politicized religion in the Atlantic world and introduced witchcraft prosecutions. Pestana presents a compelling case for rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world.

Three Restoration Divines

Author : Irène Simon
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782251662138
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Three Restoration Divines written by Irène Simon and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Damnable Heresy

Author : David M. Powers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625648707
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Damnable Heresy written by David M. Powers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636. Two things in particular stand out in Pynchon's pioneering life: he enjoyed extraordinary and uniquely positive relationships with Native peoples, and he wrote the first book banned--and burned--in Boston. Now for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive account of Pynchon's story, beginning in England, through his New England adventures, to his return home. Discover the fabric of his times and the roles Pynchon played in the Puritan venture in Old England and New England.

Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger

Author : John Willcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger written by John Willcock and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism

Author : H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198024029
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book First Among Friends : George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism written by H. Larry Ingle Professor of History University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-03-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In First Among Friends, the first scholarly biography of George Fox (1624-91), H. Larry Ingle examines the fascinating life of the reformation leader and founding organizer of the Religious Society of Friends, more popularly known today as the Quakers. Ingle places Fox within the upheavals of the English Civil Wars, Revolution, and Restoration, showing him and his band of "rude" disciples challenging the status quo, particularly during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Unlike leaders of similar groups, Fox responded to the conservatism of the Stuart restoration by facing down challenges from internal dissidents, and leading his followers to persevere until the 1689 Act of Toleration. It was this same sense of perseverance that helped the Quakers survive--the only religious sect of the era still existing today. Firmly grounded in primary sources and enriched with gripping detail, this well-written and original study reveals hitherto unknown sides of one who was clearly "First Among Friends."

The Puritan Gentry

Author : J. T. Cliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000222977
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Puritan Gentry written by J. T. Cliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men and women who risked all in opposition to King Charles I. The book looks at the role played by gentry families in the advancement or defence of ‘true religion’, and considers the reasons why powerful families which helped to govern the counties were to be found among the godly. It explores the conflict between class values and the exacting demands of an austere religious philosophy and examines the relationship between the Puritan gentry and the clerical Puritans who included authors, university dons, schoolmasters, lecturers and parish clergy.

John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-general, 1619-1684

Author : David Farr
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830047
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-general, 1619-1684 written by David Farr and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of one of the most prominent soldiers in the New Model Army, John Lambert (1619-1684) who made Cromwell Lord Protector but prevented him from becoming king.

Milton's Century

Author : Michael R. Collings
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479409944
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Milton's Century written by Michael R. Collings and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No artist creates his works in a vacuum. Beyond the conscious influence of books read, artwork seen, minds probed (through conversation or exchange of letters), writers are in no small part products of everything that surrounds them--people, places, things, events. MILTON'S CENTURY is designed to place one particular genius--John Milton, arguably the finest poet the English nation (perhaps even Western civilization) has produced--in the context of his time. And what a remarkable time it was--a century of revolutions, of discoveries, of literary and artistic efflorescence, of religious turmoil and political turbulence, of plagues and fires and ultimate rebuilding...and of the first adumbrations of the Modern Age. MILTON'S CENTURY becomes vital and alive for twenty-first-century readers through the vast network of connections and interconnections that Professor Collings articulates. [Borgo Literary Guides, No. 15.]

A Trial of Witches

Author : Ivan Bunn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134696329
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book A Trial of Witches written by Ivan Bunn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a complete account of this sensational trial and an analysis of the court procedures, and the larger social, cultural and political concerns of the period. In a critique of the official process, the book details how the erroneous conclusions of the trial were achieved. The authors consider the key participants in the case, including the judge and medical witness, their institutional importance, their part in the fate of the women and their future careers. Through detailed research of primary sources, the authors explore the important implications of this case for the understanding of hysteria, group mentality, social forces and the witchcraft phenomenon as a whole.

American Jezebel

Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0061926957
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book American Jezebel written by Eve LaPlante and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson defended herself brilliantly, but the judges, faced with a perceived threat to public order, banished her for behaving in a manner "not comely for [her] sex." Written by one of Hutchinson's direct descendants, American Jezebel brings both balance and perspective to Hutchinson's story. It captures this American heroine's life in all its complexity, presenting her not as a religious fanatic, a cardboard feminist, or a raging crank—as some have portrayed her—but as a flesh-and-blood wife, mother, theologian, and political leader. The book narrates her dramatic expulsion from Massachusetts, after which her judges, still threatened by her challenges, promptly built Harvard College to enforce religious and social orthodoxies—making her the mid-wife to the nation's first college. In exile, she settled Rhode Island, becoming the only woman ever to co-found an American colony. The seeds of the American struggle for women's and human rights can be found in the story of this one woman's courageous life. American Jezebel illuminates the origins of our modern concepts of religious freedom, equal rights, and free speech, and showcases an extraordinary woman whose achievements are astonishing by the standards of any era.

Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Author : Robert Appelbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139432869
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England written by Robert Appelbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as the world in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here and now, proposing how England or its nascent colonies could be conceived of as an 'Oceana,' or a New Jerusalem. This book provides a comprehensive view of the operations of the utopian imagination in literature from 1603 to the 1660s. Appealing to social theorists, literary critics, and political and cultural historians, this volume revises prevailing notions of the languages of hope and social dreaming in the making of British modernity during a century of political and intellectual upheaval.

Too Dangerous To Let Live

Author : David Cuckson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1470959666
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Too Dangerous To Let Live written by David Cuckson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography provides a fresh look at the life and work of an outstanding radical figure in 17th century England. Sir Henry Vane the Younger was an idealist, both politically and theologically. A youthful Governor of Massachusetts, he became the leading Parliamentarian in England during the Commonwealth period. He led attempts to introduce a written constitution based on the supremacy of Parliament and he campaigned for religious toleration. After the Restoration Charles II declared him to be too dangerous a man to let live.

The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed

Author : Ursula Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351888773
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Globe Encircled and the World Revealed written by Ursula Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960, as well as the increasing number of topics covered by the historiography of the European expansion. The studies selected demonstrate the range of this material, focusing in particular on the beginnings of trans-oceanic expansion by the Iberian powers. The volume has the further purpose of showing how the early encounters set precedents for subsequent patterns of interaction.

Regicide and Republicanism

Author : Barber Sarah Barber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474400736
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Regicide and Republicanism written by Barber Sarah Barber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of seventeenth-century monarchy suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today. The seventeenth-century arguments were based on the fiction that the person who fulfilled the office could be distinguished from the office itself. Personal morality and behaviour were vital factors in assessing the value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.

Inventing a Republic

Author : Sean Kelsey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731157
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Republic written by Sean Kelsey and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh reassessment of English politics and political culture during the Commonwealth—the brief period of parliamentary republican rule (with no monarch, royal court, or House of Lords) between the execution of Charles I in 1649, and Cromwell’s seizure of power in 1653. It focuses particularly on the problem of how to legitimate governmental authority in the absence of a monarchy and in the absence of all the symbolic and ceremonial forms through which authority had traditionally been expressed and exercised. Finally, the author argues that the Commonwealth regime was not in fact the corrupt administrative failure that it was alleged to have been by its enemies and later by many historians; instead the republican experiment was brought down by a faction no less intent on enjoying the spoils of the Stuart regime, anxious about the Commonwealth’s successes rather than alarmed by its failures. The English revolution demolished almost all political landmarks, and this book describes in vivid detail how the new republican state successfully restored the dignity of civilian government by expressing its authority through a calculated range of imagery and symbolism. Individual chapters focus on the occupation and revival of the abandoned royal palace of Whitehall by members of the new regime; the public spectacle mounted to celebrate its military victories; the ritual and ceremony with which it dignified everyday politics; and the invention of a new state iconography to replace familiar forms such as the crown and the royal seal. These efforts of the Republic to graft its own symbols and rhetoric onto the familiar political culture of the monarchical Stuart state secured an increasingly broad degree of support and, indeed, enthusiasm from its citizens. However, the steady growth of the regime’s stability and prestige was seen by the army as a threat to its power, and in 1653 they acted, lest the Republic continue to harden into an unassailable form.