Gentry culture and the politics of religion: Cheshire on the eve of civil war
Richard Cust and Peter Lake
Abstract
This book aims to revisit the county study as a way into understanding the dynamics of the English civil war during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a ‘county community’. It investigates the responses of the county’s governing elite and puritan religious establishment to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I’s Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of the petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire dur ... More
This book aims to revisit the county study as a way into understanding the dynamics of the English civil war during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a ‘county community’. It investigates the responses of the county’s governing elite and puritan religious establishment to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I’s Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of the petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire during 1641-42. This important contribution to understanding the local origins and outbreak of civil war in England will be of interest to all students and scholars studying the English Revolution.
Keywords:
English civil war,
Cheshire,
gentry culture,
county community,
puritan religious establishment,
Laudian ecclesiastic authorities,
Personal Rule,
Charles I,
petitioning,
side-taking
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781526114402 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2021 |
DOI:10.7765/9781526114426 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Richard Cust, author
University of Birmingham
Peter Lake, author
Vanderbilt University
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