J. F. Merritt (ed.)

The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621-1641

Herausgeber: Merritt, J. F.

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of major articles examining Stuart politics through the career of Thomas Wentworth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780521560412
• ISBN-10: 0521560411
• Artikelnr.: 35454105

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the historical reputation of Thomas Wentworth J. F. Merritt;
1. Phaeton's Chariot: the parliament-men and the Continental Crisis in 1621
Thomas Cogswell; 2. Sir Thomas Wentworth and anti-Spanish sentiment, 1621-4
Conrad Russell; 3. Wentworth's 'change of sides' in the 1620s Richard Cust;
4. The church triumphant? The emergence of a spiritual Lord Treasurer,
1635-6 Brian Quintrell; 5. Power and communication: Thomas Wentworth and
government at a distance during the Personal Rule, 1629-35 J. F. Merritt;
6. Thomas Wentworth and the political thought of the Personal Rule Anthony
Milton; 7. The attempted anglicisation of Ireland in the seventeenth
century: an exemplar of 'British history' Nicholas Canny; 8. 'God Bless
Your Free Church of Ireland': Wentworth, Laud, Bramhall and the Irish
Convocation of 1634 John McCafferty; 9. Strafford, the 'Londonderry
Business' and the 'new British history' Jane H. Ohlmeyer; 10. The public
context of the trial and execution of Strafford Terence Kilburn and Anthony
Milton; 11. Retrospective: Wentworth's political world in revisionist and
post-revisionist perspective Peter Lake.