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Godly kingship in Restoration England : the politics of the royal supremacy, 1660-1688 /
"The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The position of English monarchs as supreme governors of the Church of England profoundly affected early modern politics and religion. This innovative book explores how tensions in church-state relations created by Henry VIII's Reformation continued to influence relationships between the crown, Parliament and common law during the Restoration, a distinct phase in England's 'long Reformation'. Debates about the powers of kings and parliaments, the treatment of Dissenters and emerging concepts of toleration were viewed through a Reformation prism where legitimacy depended on godly status. This book discusses how the institutional, legal and ideological framework of supremacy perpetuated the language of godly kingship after 1660 and how supremacy was complicated by the ambivalent Tudor legacy. It was manipulated by not only Anglicans, but also tolerant kings and intolerant parliaments, Catholics, Dissenters and radicals like Thomas Hobbes. Invented to uphold the religious and political establishments, supremacy paradoxically ended up subverting them"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-311) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139101806 1139101803 1283341980 9781283341981 9781139101141 1139101145 9780511984549 0511984545 9781139099813 1139099817 1107222273 9781107222274 1139103601 9781139103602 9786613341983 6613341983 1139099124 9781139099127 9781107689886 1107689880 |