Charles W A Prior
Biographic Data
| ID | 1080472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles W A Prior |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles W A |
| FAMILY NAME | Prior |
| SIGNATURE | PRIOR C W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Settlers in Indian Country
The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty were rooted in complex metaphorical language, in historical understandings of alliance, and in mobility in a landscape of layered interconnections of power. Where some versions of the interpretive paradi…
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689-1901
Sermons were an integral part of British life from the Reformation onward. In terms of the output of the printing presses, they represent the dominant genre of material. Sermons were instruments for political argument, vehicles for clerical preferment, and drivers of moral and political debate. They cut across most social and intellectual lines of demarcation, as well as across religious denominations. Preaching was a central feature of both Prot…
Rethinking church and state during the English Interregnum
This article offers a re-examination of the concept of Erastianism as an explanatory tool in discussions of church and state. It focuses in particular on three texts – by Pierre du Moulin, Thomas Cobbet and John Milton – that took up the question of the nature of civil power in the sphere of religion. Based on this, the article argues that the term ‘Erastianism’ obscures the complexity and nuance of arguments about religious politics in the civil…
Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War
Religion has always been central to explanations of the political and ideological causes and course of the English civil war. Where historians once privileged aspects of the conflict that associated it with a broader narrative about the historic development of religious toleration and parliamentary democracy, the 1980s witnessed a shift whereby it was more firmly contained within local and European contexts. More recently, there has been an effor…
Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660
This essay examines the use of Hebrew sources in debates on church and state in civil war England. It fits within a developing historiography that seeks to uncover the deeper texture of early modern political discourse, and also poses questions about the prevalence of statist and secular understandings of public power in the context of the English civil war. Its specific focus is on debates on church government in the 1640s, studies of the Hebrew…
Empire at the Periphery
Journal Article Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade and the Development of the British Atlantic, by Christian J. Koot Get access Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade and the Development of the British Atlantic, by Christian J. Koot (New York: New York U.P., 2009; pp. 293. $39). Charles W. A. Prior Charles W. A. Prior University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Hybrid Constitutions
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
Defining the Jacobean Church
This 2005 book proposes a model for understanding religious debates in the Churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625. Setting aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over predestination, its theme is ecclesiology - the nature of the Church, its rites and governance, and its relationship to the early Stuart political world. Drawing on a substantial number of polemical works, from sermons to books of several hundred pages, it argues that r…
John Selden
Ecclesiology and Political Thought in England, 1580–c. 1630
This article examines the ways in which debates on ecclesiology in the Church of England served as a venue for the examination of political precept. It argues in particular that polemical sources – whether sermons, pamphlets, or longer works – reveal that discussion of conformity, the nature of the church, and its doctrine and discipline led to a broader examination of law, sovereignty, parliament, and the political costs of religious discord. Un…
Trismegistus 'His Great Giant
Trismegistus 'His Great Giant': A Source for The Titlepage of Hobbes' Leviathan Get access Charles W. A. Prior Charles W. A. Prior University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 366-370, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/510366 Published: 01 December 2004
Mandeville and Augustan Ideas
Ancient and Reformed
This essay examines the work of Thomas Bell with the aim of setting forth aspects of Jacobean conformist thought. It argues that central to Bell’s writing was the need to address the English Church as a dually-established spiritual and political association, that is, as an institution that could trace its links to the ancient church, and as a “state” church wedded to the realm and comprising an additional channel of royal sovereignty. Critics of …
Ecclesiology and Political Thought in England, 1580–c. 1630
This article examines the ways in which debates on ecclesiology in the Church of England served as a venue for the examination of political precept. It argues in particular that polemical sources – whether sermons, pamphlets, or longer works – reveal that discussion of conformity, the nature of the church, and its doctrine and discipline led to a broader examination of law, sovereignty, parliament, and the political costs of religious discord. Un…
Rethinking church and state during the English Interregnum
This article offers a re-examination of the concept of Erastianism as an explanatory tool in discussions of church and state. It focuses in particular on three texts – by Pierre du Moulin, Thomas Cobbet and John Milton – that took up the question of the nature of civil power in the sphere of religion. Based on this, the article argues that the term ‘Erastianism’ obscures the complexity and nuance of arguments about religious politics in the civil…
Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War
Religion has always been central to explanations of the political and ideological causes and course of the English civil war. Where historians once privileged aspects of the conflict that associated it with a broader narrative about the historic development of religious toleration and parliamentary democracy, the 1980s witnessed a shift whereby it was more firmly contained within local and European contexts. More recently, there has been an effor…
Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660
This essay examines the use of Hebrew sources in debates on church and state in civil war England. It fits within a developing historiography that seeks to uncover the deeper texture of early modern political discourse, and also poses questions about the prevalence of statist and secular understandings of public power in the context of the English civil war. Its specific focus is on debates on church government in the 1640s, studies of the Hebrew…
Mandeville and Augustan Ideas
Ancient and Reformed
This essay examines the work of Thomas Bell with the aim of setting forth aspects of Jacobean conformist thought. It argues that central to Bell’s writing was the need to address the English Church as a dually-established spiritual and political association, that is, as an institution that could trace its links to the ancient church, and as a “state” church wedded to the realm and comprising an additional channel of royal sovereignty. Critics of …
Trismegistus 'His Great Giant
Trismegistus 'His Great Giant': A Source for The Titlepage of Hobbes' Leviathan Get access Charles W. A. Prior Charles W. A. Prior University of Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2004, Pages 366-370, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/510366 Published: 01 December 2004
Defining the Jacobean Church
This 2005 book proposes a model for understanding religious debates in the Churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625. Setting aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over predestination, its theme is ecclesiology - the nature of the Church, its rites and governance, and its relationship to the early Stuart political world. Drawing on a substantial number of polemical works, from sermons to books of several hundred pages, it argues that r…
John Selden
Ecclesiology and Political Thought in England, 1580–c. 1630
This article examines the ways in which debates on ecclesiology in the Church of England served as a venue for the examination of political precept. It argues in particular that polemical sources – whether sermons, pamphlets, or longer works – reveal that discussion of conformity, the nature of the church, and its doctrine and discipline led to a broader examination of law, sovereignty, parliament, and the political costs of religious discord. Un…
Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World
Hybrid Constitutions
Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War
Religion has always been central to explanations of the political and ideological causes and course of the English civil war. Where historians once privileged aspects of the conflict that associated it with a broader narrative about the historic development of religious toleration and parliamentary democracy, the 1980s witnessed a shift whereby it was more firmly contained within local and European contexts. More recently, there has been an effor…
Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660
This essay examines the use of Hebrew sources in debates on church and state in civil war England. It fits within a developing historiography that seeks to uncover the deeper texture of early modern political discourse, and also poses questions about the prevalence of statist and secular understandings of public power in the context of the English civil war. Its specific focus is on debates on church government in the 1640s, studies of the Hebrew…
Empire at the Periphery
Journal Article Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade and the Development of the British Atlantic, by Christian J. Koot Get access Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade and the Development of the British Atlantic, by Christian J. Koot (New York: New York U.P., 2009; pp. 293. $39). Charles W. A. Prior Charles W. A. Prior University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Rethinking church and state during the English Interregnum
This article offers a re-examination of the concept of Erastianism as an explanatory tool in discussions of church and state. It focuses in particular on three texts – by Pierre du Moulin, Thomas Cobbet and John Milton – that took up the question of the nature of civil power in the sphere of religion. Based on this, the article argues that the term ‘Erastianism’ obscures the complexity and nuance of arguments about religious politics in the civil…
The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689-1901
Sermons were an integral part of British life from the Reformation onward. In terms of the output of the printing presses, they represent the dominant genre of material. Sermons were instruments for political argument, vehicles for clerical preferment, and drivers of moral and political debate. They cut across most social and intellectual lines of demarcation, as well as across religious denominations. Preaching was a central feature of both Prot…
Settlers in Indian Country
The aim of this Element is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty were rooted in complex metaphorical language, in historical understandings of alliance, and in mobility in a landscape of layered interconnections of power. Where some versions of the interpretive paradi…
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