Charles I and the People of England

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution

Informationen zum Autor

David Cressy was born in England and educated at Cambridge, but built his career in the United States. He has taught at colleges and universities in California, Ohio, and New Mexico, and has won numerous fellowships and awards. His work is driven by curiosity about the relationships of central and local authority, elite and popular culture, official and unofficial religion, and ordinary men and women, a curiosity that ranges from kinship to book-burning, from cross-dressing to Gypsies. When not engaged in historical research he may be found exploring the deserts and beaches of the American West.

Klappentext

The story of the reign of Charles I, as seen through the lives of his ordinary subjects, showing how his authority was both created and destroyed, and connecting the political and religious history of the period with the experience and aspirations of the rest of the population.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Prologue: Lucy Martin's Message; Introduction; 1 The Commonwealth of England; 2 The Oath of a King; 3 Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection; 4 Unprosperous Wars; 5 An Accessible Monarch?; 6 Importunate Petitioners; 7 The King's Religion and the People's Church; 8 The King's Declaration and the People's Sports; 9 Sacred Kingship Eclipsed; 10 The Blindness of Charles I; Bibliography; Notes; Index

an outstanding contribution ... Highly recommended.

Auteur

David Cressy was born in England and educated at Cambridge, but built his career in the United States. He has taught at colleges and universities in California, Ohio, and New Mexico, and has won numerous fellowships and awards. His work is driven by curiosity about the relationships of central and local authority, elite and popular culture, official and unofficial religion, and ordinary men and women, a curiosity that ranges from kinship to book-burning, from cross-dressing to Gypsies. When not engaged in historical research he may be found exploring the deserts and beaches of the American West.

Contenu

• Preface

• Prologue: Lucy Martin's Message

• Introduction

• 1: The Commonwealth of England

• 2: The Oath of a King

• 3: Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection

• 4: Unprosperous Wars

• 5: An Accessible Monarch?

• 6: Importunate Petitioners

• 7: The King's Religion and the People's Church

• 8: The King's Declaration and the People's Sports

• 9: Sacred Kingship Eclipsed

• 10: The Blindness of Charles I

• Bibliography

• Notes

• Index