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EBOOK God's Instruments:Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191624414
EAN: 62C9928DEB
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Stron: 440
Data wydania: 2012
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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        ofliberty 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 thereturn of the Stuart        dynasty in 1660.Its theme is the relationship between the beliefs or convictions of        politicians and their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical        dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the workings of divine        providence affected political conduct; Cromwell's commitment to liberty of        conscience and his search for godly reformation through educational reform; the        constitutional premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for        supremacy between parliamentaryand military rule; the relationship between        conceptions of civil and religious liberty. The conflicts Worden reconstructs are        placed in the perspective of long-term developments, of which historians have lost        sight, in ideas about parliament and about freedom. The final chapters turn to the        guidingconvictions of two writers at the heart of politics, John Milton and the        royalist Edward Hyde, the future Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously        published essays, much of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with        freshly written chapters.

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