Author: T. L. StoatePublisher:
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Category : Allegiance
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Somerset Protestation Returns ; and Lay Subsidy Rolls, 1641-2
Author: T. L. StoatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegiance
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Revolutionary England and the National Covenant
Author: Edward VallancePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843831181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
An assessment of the importance of oaths, and the taking of, and the idea of national covenants during a turbulent time in English history. This book studies the oaths and covenants taken during the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, a time of great religious and political upheaval, assessing their effect and importance. From the reign of Mary I to the Exclusion crisis, Protestant writers argued that England was a nation in covenant with God and urged that the country should renew its contract with the Lord through taking solemn oaths. In so doing, they radically modified understandings of monarchy, political allegiance and the royal succession. During the civil war, the tendering of oaths of allegiance, the Protestation of 1641 and the Vow and Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 (all describedas embodiments of England's national covenant) also extended the boundaries of the political nation. The poor and illiterate, women as well as men, all subscribed to these tests of loyalty, which were presented as social contracts between the Parliament and the people. The Solemn League and Covenant in particular continued to provoke political controversy after 1649 and even into the 1690s many English Presbyterians still viewed themselves as bound by itsterms; the author argues that these covenants had a significant, and until now unrecognised, influence on 'politics-out-of-doors' in the eighteenth century. EDWARD VALLANCE is Lecturer in Early Modern British History, University of Liverpool.
Oxfordshire and North Berkshire Protestation Returns and Tax Assessments 1641-42
Author: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley GibsonPublisher: Oxfordshire Record Society
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Two Tudor Subsidy Assessments for the County of Somerset 1558 and 1581-82
Author: Adrian J. WebbPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Surname Detective
Author: Colin RogersPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526186039
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
From the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names, many of them common, to follow the migration of people through the centuries. Each of the 100 names is mapped since the Doomsday book in 1086. For those whose name is not among the sample, the book shows how to find out where namesakes live now, how they moved around the country through time, and how the name originated from a placename, a nickname or an occupation. Colin Rogers finishes this work by showing how the distribution of surnames can be studied irrespective of the size of the surrounding population, and reaches some interesting conclusions about which names are more reliable guides to migration since the 14th century.
Urban Education in the 19th Century
Author: D.A. ReederPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351238345
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change
Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England, 1640-1789
Author: J. BarryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230361382
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Using south-western England as a focus for considering the continued place of witchcraft and demonology in provincial culture in the period between the English and French revolutions, Barry shows how witch-beliefs were intricately woven into the fabric of daily life, even at a time when they arguably ceased to be of interest to the educated.
The Witches of Selwood Forest
Author: Andrew PickeringPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443893927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The ancient forest of Selwood straddles the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire and terminates in the south where these counties meet Dorset. Until now, a comprehensive study of its exceptionally rich history of demonological beliefs and witchcraft persecution in the early modern period has not been attempted. This book explores the connections between important theological texts written in the region, notably Richard Bernard’s Guide to the Grand-Jury Men (1627) and Joseph Glanvill’s Saducismus Triumphatus (1681), influential local families such as the Hunts and the Hills, and the extraordinary witchcraft episodes associated with Shepton Mallet, Brewham, Stoke Trister, and elsewhere. In particular, it focuses on a little-known case in the village of Beckington in 1689, and shows how this was not a late, isolated episode, but an integral part of the wider Selwood Forest witchcraft story.
The Mind of John Locke
Author: Ian HarrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521638722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
John Locke (1632-1704) is a central figure in the history of thought, and in liberal doctrine especially. This major study brings a range of his wider views to bear upon his political theory. Every political theorist has a vision, a view about the basic features of life and society, as well as technique which mediates this into propositions about politics. Locke's vision spanned questions concerning Christian worship, ethics, political economy, medicine, the human understanding, revealed theology and education. This study shows how the character of these wider concerns informed Two Treatises of Government, especially in respect of a view of divine teleology, and situated a distinctive view of politics which treated the state and the church in parallel terms.
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