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EBOOK England's Culture Wars:Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649-1660

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191632358
EAN: 1E6BA003EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Following the execution of the king in 1649, the new Commonwealth and then Oliver        Cromwell set out to drive forward a puritan reformation of manners. They wanted to        reform the church and its services, enforce the Sabbath, suppress Christmas, and        spread the gospel. They sought to impose a stern moral discipline to regulate and        reform sexual behaviour, drinking practices, language, dress, and leisure activities        ranging from music and plays to football.England's Culture Wars explores how far        this agenda could be enforced, especially in urban communities which offered the        greatest potential to build a godly civic commonwealth. How far were local        magistrates and ministers willing to cooperate, and what coercive powers did the        regime possess to silence or remove dissidents? How far did the reformers themselves        wish to go, and how did they reconcile godly reformation with the demands of decency        and civility? Music and dancing lived on,in genteel contexts, early opera replaced        the plays now forbidden, and puritans themselves were often fond of hunting and        hawking. Bernard Capp explores the propaganda wars waged in press and pulpit, how        energetically reformation was pursued, and how much or little was achieved. Many        recent historians havedismissed interregnum reformation as a failure. He        demonstrates that while the reforming drive varied enormously from place to place,        its impact could be powerful. The book is therefore structured in three parts:        setting out the reform agenda and challenges, surveying general issues and patterns,        and finally offering a number of representative case-studies. It draws on a wide        range of sources, including local and central government records, judicial records,        pamphlets, sermons, newspapers,diaries, letters, and memoirs; and demonstrates how        court records by themselves give us only a very limited picture of what was        happening on the ground.

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