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God's instruments : political conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell / Blair Worden.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) DA426 .W67 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Worden, Blair.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
- Cromwell, Oliver.
- Church and state--England--History--17th century.
- Church and state.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1649-1660.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
- Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.
- Heads of state--Great Britain--Biography.
- Heads of state.
- England.
- Generals--Great Britain--Biography.
- Generals.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 421 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Cromwell and the Sin of Achan 13
- 2 Providence and Politics 33
- 3 Toleration and the Protectorate 63
- 4 Politics, Piety, and Learning: Cromwellian Oxford 91
- 5 Cromwell and his Councillors 194
- 6 Cromwell and the Protectorate 230
- 7 Kingship, the Commonwealth, and Single Rule 260
- 8 Civil and Religious Liberty 313
- 9 John Milton: Life and Writing 355
- 10 Clarendon: History, Religion, Politics 373.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199570492
- 0199570493
- OCLC:
- 761379404
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