Gary S De Krey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary S De Krey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary S |
| FAMILY NAME | De Krey |
| SIGNATURE | DE KREY G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Olaf College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What Made the Levellers Revolutionary? Reconsidering Leveller Political Economy
The article addresses the neglect of matters of political economy in Leveller scholarship, which for some time has focused on political and constitutional issues. It foregrounds Leveller approaches to trade and taxation, tithes and enclosure, and the relief of poverty before, during, and after the Leveller zenith of 1647–49. These concerns were as central to Leveller thinking as the issue of the parliamentary franchise, and the Levellers’ attenti…
Amon Wilbee and Leveller Beginnings, 1647-8
Amon Wilbee was the authorial pseudonym for four tracts critical of the Long Parliament that appeared between July 1647 and May 1648. Wilbee depicted leading MPs as corrupt, self-interested, and insensitive to the needs of the people. These tracts reveal much about the origins of the Levellers; but, because of their uncertain authorship, they have received little attention from civil war historians. This essay provides the first systematic examin…
The Common Freedom of the People
Following the Levellers, Volume Two
This book examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton and their followers.
Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England
Journal Article Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688. Get access Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. x, 320. $99.00. Gary S. De Krey Gary S. De Krey St. Olaf College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Revelation Restored
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction This article is intended to introduce the Restoration and the last generation of historical scholarship about it. Opening with a critical literature review, it thereafter focuses on a series of questions about the fragile character of the Restoration settlement and about the unsettling political and religious issues of the reign of Charles II. The article employs a three‐kingdom approach and integrates the Restoration histor…
Between Revolutions
A renewal of historical interest in the politics and religion of the Restoration began in the late 1980s and has changed how we look at the period. This article seeks to explain the origins of the recent wave of Restoration scholarship, provides an overview of the field, and offers suggestions about critical interpretive issues. The article adopts a British approach, seeking to find common patterns in the reigns of Charles II and James II in Scot…
Cities Divided
England's Troubles
Reformation in the Restoration Crisis, 1679–1682
The Restoration Crisis was a crisis about reformation. In early 1679, Sir Robert Southwell recorded his perception that “there is now spread an universal demand of reformation.” Others who recorded their perceptions about the crisis of 1679–82 also believed it was a crisis about religion, a label that has recently been more strongly associated with 1640–2. Richard Baxter, for instance, beheld in 1679 a nation “distracted by Divisions; and much, i…
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional tre…
Rethinking the Restoration
On what religious and political grounds did restoration nonconformists argue for ‘ease to tender consciences’, and what did they mean by conscience? These questions are central to any evaluation of nonconformist political thought in the early restoration. Such dissenting thinkers as Slingsby Bethel, John Humfrey, Philip Nye, John Owen, William Penn, and Sir Charles Wolseley authored arguments for conscience during the intense debate about the res…
The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken
The First Restoration Crisis
The years between 1667 and 1673 marked a crisis in the English Restoration. This crisis was produced by parliamentary consideration of an act to replace the expiring Conventicle Act of 1664. Hoping for relief from the provisions of the first act, dissenters in London and elsewhere were described by late 1667 as “mighty high and...expect[ing] to have their day now soon.” But having briefly experienced de facto religious freedom, the English noncon…
From Persecution to Toleration
Introduction The rise of Puritanism and the legalizing of dissent 1571-1719 The cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful The French and Walloon communities in London 1550-1688 From persecution to integration: the decline of the Anglo-Dutch communities in England 1642-1702 William III and toleration The claim to freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought freedom of worship? The Deist challenge The Jews of England and 1688…
The House of Lords, 1603-1649
For the Cause of Truth
Political Radicalism in London after the Glorious Revolution
Rethinking the Restoration
On what religious and political grounds did restoration nonconformists argue for ‘ease to tender consciences’, and what did they mean by conscience? These questions are central to any evaluation of nonconformist political thought in the early restoration. Such dissenting thinkers as Slingsby Bethel, John Humfrey, Philip Nye, John Owen, William Penn, and Sir Charles Wolseley authored arguments for conscience during the intense debate about the res…
Between Revolutions
A renewal of historical interest in the politics and religion of the Restoration began in the late 1980s and has changed how we look at the period. This article seeks to explain the origins of the recent wave of Restoration scholarship, provides an overview of the field, and offers suggestions about critical interpretive issues. The article adopts a British approach, seeking to find common patterns in the reigns of Charles II and James II in Scot…
Political Radicalism in London after the Glorious Revolution
Amon Wilbee and Leveller Beginnings, 1647-8
Amon Wilbee was the authorial pseudonym for four tracts critical of the Long Parliament that appeared between July 1647 and May 1648. Wilbee depicted leading MPs as corrupt, self-interested, and insensitive to the needs of the people. These tracts reveal much about the origins of the Levellers; but, because of their uncertain authorship, they have received little attention from civil war historians. This essay provides the first systematic examin…
Political Radicalism in London after the Glorious Revolution
For the Cause of Truth
The House of Lords, 1603-1649
The First Restoration Crisis
The years between 1667 and 1673 marked a crisis in the English Restoration. This crisis was produced by parliamentary consideration of an act to replace the expiring Conventicle Act of 1664. Hoping for relief from the provisions of the first act, dissenters in London and elsewhere were described by late 1667 as “mighty high and...expect[ing] to have their day now soon.” But having briefly experienced de facto religious freedom, the English noncon…
From Persecution to Toleration
Introduction The rise of Puritanism and the legalizing of dissent 1571-1719 The cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful The French and Walloon communities in London 1550-1688 From persecution to integration: the decline of the Anglo-Dutch communities in England 1642-1702 William III and toleration The claim to freedom of conscience: freedom of speech, freedom of thought freedom of worship? The Deist challenge The Jews of England and 1688…
The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken
Rethinking the Restoration
On what religious and political grounds did restoration nonconformists argue for ‘ease to tender consciences’, and what did they mean by conscience? These questions are central to any evaluation of nonconformist political thought in the early restoration. Such dissenting thinkers as Slingsby Bethel, John Humfrey, Philip Nye, John Owen, William Penn, and Sir Charles Wolseley authored arguments for conscience during the intense debate about the res…
Reformation in the Restoration Crisis, 1679–1682
The Restoration Crisis was a crisis about reformation. In early 1679, Sir Robert Southwell recorded his perception that “there is now spread an universal demand of reformation.” Others who recorded their perceptions about the crisis of 1679–82 also believed it was a crisis about religion, a label that has recently been more strongly associated with 1640–2. Richard Baxter, for instance, beheld in 1679 a nation “distracted by Divisions; and much, i…
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional tre…
England's Troubles
Between Revolutions
A renewal of historical interest in the politics and religion of the Restoration began in the late 1980s and has changed how we look at the period. This article seeks to explain the origins of the recent wave of Restoration scholarship, provides an overview of the field, and offers suggestions about critical interpretive issues. The article adopts a British approach, seeking to find common patterns in the reigns of Charles II and James II in Scot…
Cities Divided
Teaching & Learning Guide for
Author's Introduction This article is intended to introduce the Restoration and the last generation of historical scholarship about it. Opening with a critical literature review, it thereafter focuses on a series of questions about the fragile character of the Restoration settlement and about the unsettling political and religious issues of the reign of Charles II. The article employs a three‐kingdom approach and integrates the Restoration histor…
Revelation Restored
Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England
Journal Article Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688. Get access Jacqueline Rose. Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2011. Pp. x, 320. $99.00. Gary S. De Krey Gary S. De Krey St. Olaf College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Following the Levellers, Volume Two
This book examines the later political efforts of Leveller spokesmen like John Lilburne, John Wildman, and Richard Overton and their followers.
Amon Wilbee and Leveller Beginnings, 1647-8
Amon Wilbee was the authorial pseudonym for four tracts critical of the Long Parliament that appeared between July 1647 and May 1648. Wilbee depicted leading MPs as corrupt, self-interested, and insensitive to the needs of the people. These tracts reveal much about the origins of the Levellers; but, because of their uncertain authorship, they have received little attention from civil war historians. This essay provides the first systematic examin…
The Common Freedom of the People
What Made the Levellers Revolutionary? Reconsidering Leveller Political Economy
The article addresses the neglect of matters of political economy in Leveller scholarship, which for some time has focused on political and constitutional issues. It foregrounds Leveller approaches to trade and taxation, tithes and enclosure, and the relief of poverty before, during, and after the Leveller zenith of 1647–49. These concerns were as central to Leveller thinking as the issue of the parliamentary franchise, and the Levellers’ attenti…
Political science (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · History (13 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (12 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Classics (4 works)