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Gentry culture and the politics of religion : Cheshire on the eve of civil war / Richard Cust and Peter Lake.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cust, Richard, author.
- Lake, Peter, author.
- Series:
- Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain.
- Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gentry--England--Cheshire--History--17th century.
- Gentry.
- Religion and politics--England--Cheshire--History--17th century.
- Religion and politics.
- Cheshire (England)--History--17th century.
- Cheshire (England).
- Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Causes.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 379 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)., digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This title revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the county's governing elite and puritan religious establishment responded 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 petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire in 1641-2.
- Contents:
- The culture of dynasticism
- The culture of the Cheshire gentleman
- The governance of the shire
- Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s
- Puritans and ecclesiastical government
- Petitioning and the search for settlement
- The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?
- Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and information supplied online (viewed on January 9, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 9781526114433
- 1526114437
- 9781526155436
- 1526155435
- 9781526114426
- 1526114429
- OCLC:
- 1176455108
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