The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England begun in the year 1641 / by Edward, Earl of Clarendon. Re-edited from a fresh collation of the original ms. in the Bodleian Library with marginal dates and occasional notes by W. Dunn Macray ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.

Contributor:

Macray, William Dunn, 1826-1916.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.

Great Britain.

History.

Physical Description:

6 volumes : facsimile ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Clarendon's history of the rebellion.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Summary:

Since its publication at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Earl of Clarendon's history of the English Civil War has remained one of the most important sources for our understanding of the events which changed the course of British history. Clarendon held the offices of Lord High Chancellor of England and Chancellor of the University of Oxford; he began his great work after the Restoration of Charles II at the behest of the King himself. This classic work, long unavailable, has now been reissued by the Oxford University Press in a facsimile of the much-admired 1888 edition. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England chronicles in absorbing detail the intrigues and upheavals, the alliances and confrontations, the triumphs and the tragedies, of the 1640s and 1650s. In elegant and vital prose it brings to life the personalities who shaped the era, and the principles for which a nation was divided.

Contents:

v. 1. Books I-IV

v. 2. Books V and VI

v. 3. Books VII and VIII

v. 4. Books IX-XI

v. 5. Books XII-XIV

v. 6. Books XV and XVI and index.

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1888.

Spine title: Clarendon's history of the rebellion.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0198203683

0198203691

0198203705

0198203713

0198203721

019820373X

OCLC:

187459779