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Gentry culture and the politics of religion : Cheshire on the eve of civil war /
This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the county's governing elite...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Series: | Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The culture of dynasticism
- The culture of the Cheshire gentleman
- The governance of the shire
- Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s
- Puritans and ecclesiastical government
- Petitioning and the search for settlement
- The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?
- Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war.