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London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64 /

London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vernon, Elliot, 1972- (Author)
Other Authors: Peacey, Jason (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
Series:Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • Note on conventions
  • Introduction
  • The radicalisation of conformist puritanism, c. 1638-40
  • Smectymnuus and the attack on episcopacy in 1641
  • The emergence of the London presbyterian movement, 1642-3
  • London presbyterians and the fracture of parliamentarianism, 1644-5
  • The campaign for presbyterian church government, 1645-6
  • The political presbyterian moment, 1646-7
  • Presbyterian church government in the Province of London, 1646-60
  • The London presbyterians and the projected settlements of the British civil wars, 1647-9
  • 'Mr Love's case' and the London presbyterian struggle against the English republic, 1649-51
  • Cromwellian Britain, c. 1653-9
  • The Restoration, 1659-60
  • Epilogue: the Cavalier Parliament, the Great Ejection of 1662 and the first years of dissent
  • Conclusion
  • Index