An Industrious Mind : The Worlds of Sir Simonds D'Ewes / J. Sears McGee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGee, J. Sears, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.

D'Ewes, Simonds.

Great Britain. Parliament--Biography.

Great Britain.

Antiquarians--England--Biography.

Antiquarians.

Puritans--England--Biography.

Puritans.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1642-1649.

Great Britain--History--Early Stuarts, 1603-1649.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 511 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a member of England's Long Parliament, Puritan, historian and antiquarian who lived from 1602–1650. D'Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War, and his extensive journal of the Long Parliament, together with his autobiography and correspondence, offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the life of a seventeenth-century English gentleman, his opinions, thoughts and prejudices during this tumultuous time. D'Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern Europe. His life and thought before the Long Parliament are carefully analyzed, so that the mind of one of the Parliamentarian opponents of King Charles I's policies can be understood more fully than that of any other Member of Parliament. Although conservative in social and political terms, D'Ewes's Puritanism prevented him from joining his Royalist younger brother Richard during the civil war that began in 1642. D'Ewes collected one of the largest private libraries of books and manuscripts in England in his era and used them to pursue historical and antiquarian research. He followed news of national and international events voraciously and conveyed his opinions of them to his friends in many hundreds of letters. McGee's biography is the first thorough exploration of the life and ideas of this extraordinary observer, offering fresh insight into this pivotal time in European history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Preface

Abbreviations

Author’s Note

Introduction: “An Industrious Mind”

Chapter 1. “A rationall hearer”—1602–1620

Chapter 2. “The whole time & minde are filled with law”— 1620–1626

Chapter 3. “To dippe my pen in teares not inke”—1626–1631

Chapter 4. “My dearest dearest”—1631–1639

Chapter 5. “The highest stepp of wickednes”—1631–1639

Chapter 6. “An Iliad of miseries”—1639–1640

Chapter 7. “Stub vp the rootes of all our mischifes” (December, 1640—July, 1642)

Chapter 8. “No end . . . but by the sword”

Appendix A: The D’Ewes Genealogy

Appendix B: The Children of Sir Edmonds D’Ewes

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804794282

0804794286

OCLC:

1178769016