Glenn Burgess - England’s Wars of Religion, Revisited

ENGLANDS WARS OF RELIGION, REVISITED

Edited by

CHARLES W.A. PRIOR and GLENN BURGESS

University of Hull, UK

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Charles W.A. Prior and Glenn Burgess 2011

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Englands wars of religion, revisited.

1. Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate,
1649-1660. 2. Religion and politics--England--History-
17th century. 3. Great Britain--History--Civil War,
1642-1649--Religious aspects.
I. Prior, Charles W. A. II. Burgess, Glenn, 1961
942.062-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Englands wars of religion, revisited / [compiled by] Charles W.A. Prior and Glenn Burgess.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-1973-0 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-1974-7 (ebook)

1. Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Historiography. 2. Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Historiography. 3. Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660--Historiography. 4. Religion and politics--England--History--17th century. 5. Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century. I. Prior, Charles W. A. II. Burgess, Glenn, 1961

DA403.E54 2011
941.0630072--dc22

2011003043

ISBN 9781409419730 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409419747 (ebk)
ISBN 9781409482345 (ebk-ePUB)

Glenn Burgess

Ronald G. Asch

Robert von Friedeburg

Alan Cromartie

Charles W.A. Prior

Michael J. Braddick

J. Sears McGee

Glenn Burgess

Sarah Mortimer

Rachel Foxley

Blair Worden

John Coffey

Jeffrey Collins

John Morrill

Dr Charles W.A. Prior is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Hull. He is editor of Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays (2000), and has published articles on political thought, iconography, and Miltons anti-episcopacy in The Historical Journal and Notes and Queries. He is the author of Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 16031625 (2005), and has recently completed A Confusion of Tongues: Britains Wars of Reformation, 16251642.

Professor Glenn Burgess is Professor of History at the University of Hull, and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Learning and Teaching. His major publications include The Politics of the Ancient Constitution: An Introduction to English Political Thought 16031642 (1992), Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (1996), and, as editor, The New British History: Founding a Modern State 16031715 (1999), English Radicalism, 15501850 (2007), and European Political Thought 14501700 (2007). His most recent book is British Political Thought 15001660 (2009).

Professor Ronald Asch holds the Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Freiburg; among his publications are Der Hof Karls I. Politik, Provinz und Patronage, 16251640 (1993), Nobilities in Transition: Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe, c.15501700 (2003), and a collection (edited with Dagmar Friest), Staatsbildung als kultureller Prozess: Strukturwandel und Legitimation von Herrschaft in der Frhen Neuzeit (2005).

Professor Michael Braddick teaches Early Modern British History at the University of Sheffield, and has published widely on aspects of state formation and forms of political resistance in early modern England. He is also co-editor of two essay collections and of a major edition of seventeenth-century letters. His most recent book is Gods Fury, Englands Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars (2008).

Professor John Coffey teaches Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford (1997), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 15581689 (2000), and, most recently, John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England (2006). He has also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (2008).

Dr Jeffrey R. Collins is Associate Professor of History at Queens University at Kingston, Canada. He has written a number of articles on political thought and religion in Cromwellian England, and on the religion of Thomas Hobbes. His major study The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes was published in 2005, and he has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Hobbess Leviathan (2007).

Professor Alan Cromartie is based in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author of Sir Matthew Hale: Law, Religion and Natural Philosophy (1995), The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England (2006), and editor of Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right (2005).

Dr Rachel Foxley is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Reading. After studying Classics and Womens Studies, she completed a PhD on the Levellers under the supervision of John Morrill. She has published articles on various aspects of Leveller thought and is finishing a book on the subject. In 20078 she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her project Gender, democracy and the republican tradition.

Professor Robert von Friedeburg holds the Chair in Early Modern History at Erasmus University. He is the author of Europa in der frhen Neuzeit (2008) and Widerstandsrecht und Konfessionskonflikt: Gemeiner Mann und Notwehr im deutsch-britischen Vergleich, 15301669 (1999). Among the many collections of essays he has edited are Passions and the Legitimacy of Rule: Antiquity to the Early Enlightenment (2005), and Murder and Monarchy: Regicide in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2004).

Professor J. Sears McGee teaches British History at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Godly Man in Stuart England: Anglicans, Puritans, and the Two Tables, 16201670 (1976), and a range of articles on figures such as William Laud and Francis Rous. He has edited John Bunyans doctrinal writings for the Clarendon edition of the Miscellaneous Works (1987), and is presently at work on For Faith, Family and Nation: The Private World of Sir Simonds DEwes, 16021650.

Dr Sarah Mortimer is University Lecturer and Student and Tutor in History at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Her first book is Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socianism