The National Covenant And The Solemn League And Covenant 1660 1696

Author : James Walters
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783276042

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The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696 by James Walters Pdf

Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life. Until now, scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in the conflicts of the 1640s, with discussion of the Covenants after 1660 mostly limited to the context of violent Scottish radicalism. This book moves beyond a rigid focus on Scotland to explore the legacy of the Covenants in England. It examines the discourse surrounding key events in the Restoration period and traces the influence of the Covenants in the context of radical Presbyterianism, and in mainstream debates around politics, church government, and the constitution of the British kingdoms. The Covenants continued to have relevance in two primary respects. Firstly, the Covenants were used as reference points for discussing the competing legacies of the English and Scottish Reformations and the confused issues of church and state that defined the Restoration period. Furthermore, the form of the Covenants as solemn individual subscriptions to a constitutional and religious model, and the political ideas that underpinned them, were emulated by those seeking to resist royal authority during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81, and during the events surrounding the Revolution of 1688. Thus, this book holds particular interest for students of constitutionalism, legal pluralism or civil religion in seventeenth-century Britain, and for those seeking to deepen their understanding of the intellectual origins of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and the Revolution of 1688-9.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277360

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Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688 by Mark Goldie Pdf

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on the author's published essays, revised and updated with a new overarching introduction, this book explores the debates in Restoration England about "godly rule". The book assesses some of the crucial transitions in English history: how the late Reformation gave way to the early Enlightenment; how Royalism became Toryism and Puritanism became Whiggism; how the power of churchmen was challenged by virulent anticlericalism; how the verities of "divine right" theory revived and collapsed. Providing a distinctive account of English thought in the era between the two revolutions of the Stuart century, "Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688" discusses the ideological foundations of emerging party politics, and the deep intellectual roots of competing visions for the commonwealth, placing the power of religion, and the taming of religion, squarely alongside constitutional battles within secular politics.

Author : Alex W. Barber
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275175

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The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660-1715 by Alex W. Barber Pdf

A discussion of the fascinating interplay between communication, politics and religion in early modern England suggesting a new framework for the politics of print culture. This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting political class, setting England on the path to modernity. England did not move from a position of complete control of the press to one of complete freedom. Instead, it moved from pre-publication censorship to post-publication restraint. Political and religious authorities and their agents continued to shape and manipulate information. Authors, printers, publishers and book agents were continually harassed. The book trade reacted by practicing self-censorship. At times of political calm, government and the book trade colluded in a policy of policing rather than punishment. The Restraint of the Press in England problematizes the notion of the birth of modernity, a moment claimed by many prominent scholars to have taken place at the transition from the seventeenth into the eighteenth century. What emerges from this study is not a steady move to liberalism, democracy or modernity. Rather, after 1695, England was a religious and politically fractured society, in which ideas of the sovereignty of the people and the power of public opinion were being established and argued about.

Author : Chris R. Langley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275304

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The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 by Chris R. Langley Pdf

What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

Author : Rachel Hammersley,Adam Morton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277841

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Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 by Rachel Hammersley,Adam Morton Pdf

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political thought at key moments of early modern British political and colonial history. As this volume shows, it was at work not just during the Enlightenment, but within a much wider periodical framework: the Reformation, the rise of the Puritan movement, the conflict over the Stuart state and church, the English Revolution, and the formation of key American colonies in the eighteenth century. Advocates of Civil Religion tried to reconcile a national church with religious toleration and design a constitution capable of preventing the church from interfering with affairs of state. The volume investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers in the history of political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau), in the works of those who have been recognized as shaping political ideas (Hooker, Prynne et al.) during this period, and in the advocacy of those perhaps not previously associated with Civil Religion (William Penn). Although Civil Religion was often posited as a pragmatic solution to constitutional and ecclesiological problems created by the Reformation and the English Revolution, they also reveal that such pragmatism was not at odds with religious conviction or ideals. Civil Religion certainly enhanced citizenship in this period, but it did so in ways which depended on the truth claims of Protestantism, not on their domestication to politics.

Author : Andrea McKenzie
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277629

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Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England by Andrea McKenzie Pdf

On a cold October afternoon in 1678, the Westminster justice of the peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey left his home in Charing Cross and never returned. Within hours of his disappearance, London was abuzz with rumours that the magistrate had been murdered by Catholics in retaliation for his investigation into a supposed 'Popish Plot' against the government. Five days later, speculation morphed into a moral panic after Godfrey's body was discovered in a ditch, impaled on his own sword in an apparent clumsily staged suicide. This book presents an anatomy of a conspiratorial crisis that shook the foundations of late Stuart England, eroding public faith in authority and official sources of information. Speculation about Godfrey's death dovetailed with suspicions about secret diplomacy at the court of Charles II, contributing to the emergence of a partisan press and an oppositional political culture in which the most fantastical claims were not only believable but plausible. Ultimately, conspiracy theories implicating the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.ng the king's principal minister, his queen and his brother in Godfrey's murder stoked the passions and divisions that would culminate in the Exclusion Crisis, the most serious challenge to the British monarchy since the Civil War.

Author : Edward Vallance
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 184383118X

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Revolutionary England and the National Covenant by Edward Vallance Pdf

An assessment of the importance of oaths, and the taking of, and the idea of national covenants during a turbulent time in English history. This book studies the oaths and covenants taken during the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, a time of great religious and political upheaval, assessing their effect and importance. From the reign of Mary I to the Exclusion crisis, Protestant writers argued that England was a nation in covenant with God and urged that the country should renew its contract with the Lord through taking solemn oaths. In so doing, they radically modified understandings of monarchy, political allegiance and the royal succession. During the civil war, the tendering of oaths of allegiance, the Protestation of 1641 and the Vow and Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 (all describedas embodiments of England's national covenant) also extended the boundaries of the political nation. The poor and illiterate, women as well as men, all subscribed to these tests of loyalty, which were presented as social contracts between the Parliament and the people. The Solemn League and Covenant in particular continued to provoke political controversy after 1649 and even into the 1690s many English Presbyterians still viewed themselves as bound by itsterms; the author argues that these covenants had a significant, and until now unrecognised, influence on 'politics-out-of-doors' in the eighteenth century. EDWARD VALLANCE is Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Liverpool.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1712
Category : Presbyterianism
ISBN : OCLC:936438953

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The National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant by Anonim Pdf

Author : John GLAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1779
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019518025

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A review of a paper lately written (by Mr. J. G.) against the being and binding obligation of our sacred national Covenants; especially the Solemn League and Covenant of the three kingdoms. Whereunto an analysis of the Solemn League and Covenant is prefixed ... By a lover of truth and peace. [Edited by Eb. W.] by John GLAS Pdf

Author : Thomas Henderson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0530236494

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The National Covenant and Solemn League & Covenant by Thomas Henderson Pdf

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Author : Kirsteen M. Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317026525

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The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663 by Kirsteen M. Mackenzie Pdf

This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular attention to links, similarities and differences in and between the covenanted interest in all three kingdoms. It also follows the fortunes of the covenanted interest and Presbyterian Church government as it built and changed in response to the Royalists and the Independents during the 1650s.

Author : Scotland Church of
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3337248543

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The National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant by Scotland Church of Pdf

The National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant - With the acknowledgement of sins, and engagement to duties as they were renewed at Lesmahego, March 3. 1688 with accommodation to the present times is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1689. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author : Lover of Truth and Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1727
Category : Covenanters
ISBN : OCLC:1157068979

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A Review of a Paper Lately Written Against the Being and Binding of Our Sacred National Covenants by Lover of Truth and Peace Pdf

Author : William SYMINGTON (D.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019861748

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The Nature and Obligation of Public Vows; with an Explanation and Defence of the British Covenants by William SYMINGTON (D.D.) Pdf

Author : David Hay Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Covenanters
ISBN : NYPL:33433082250188

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The Story of the Scottish Covenants in Outline by David Hay Fleming Pdf