Euan Mcarthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 4427379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Euan Mcarthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Euan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcarthur |
| SIGNATURE | MCARTHUR E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3945-294X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Isle of Man and Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Empire
This article examines two debates concerning the British Empire. It discusses, firstly, the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in imperial-colonial studies, using the case study of the Isle of Man, a jurisdiction over which the crown assumed the customs rights in 1765. Historians of Britain’s empire have long recognised similarities between constitutional structures in the colonies and the motherland, but have been less attentive to co…
A Question of Belief? Contesting Religion in Restoration England
Mark Goldie is a towering figure in the historiography of early modern England, with a wide body of work concerning the origins and formations of political and religious institutions, including nascent party groups. His essays and edited collections inform most other accounts of the period, and his cohort of influential supervisees is legion within academia
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law
Research note
Reflecting on two research notes in this editionof Quaker Studies, this conversation piece considers the commonalitiesbetween them and what they tell us about the direction of future research. Thecontent of each note concerns Quakerism in a local context – examining specificcivic, parochial, and educational debates in the East of England – suggesting aneed to write Quaker history in a plural fashion. Both authors equally reflect,however, on the m…
Research note
This research note contextualises, and in one case transcribes, two early pamphlets concerning the Quakers which remain difficult to access. In each, dated 1655 and 1659, we can see crucial early interactions between the movement and outsiders.The earlier, an anti-Quaker work, details a sexual scandal in Norfolk that brought criticism from within and without the movement, including local magistrates and an active puritan community. Though compile…
George Fox the Younger
Quakerism is conventionally viewed as a politically radical movement at its foundations. This thesis has been challenged recently, but the problem remains that early Quakers provided little justification for a politics comfortable with established social and political hierarchies. This article proposes that early Quakerism’s ‘incoherence’, a feature which intellectual historians are often alert to within political texts and movements, was patched…
Thomas Denton’s Perambulation
This article uses a late seventeenth-century county survey as a key to understand conceptions of county, national, and international identity. Previous historians of ‘Britain’ and its composite nations have insufficiently attended to the interaction between these elements. Thomas Denton’s Perambulation of Cumberland, with additions on Westmorland, the Isle of Man, and Ireland, contains a wealth of evidence as to how a Cumbrian, English, and Briti…
Northern echoes
Studies of seventeenth-century Britain have increasingly recognised a multiplicity of centrifugal and centripetal identities at play. The early Quaker movement witnessed a dramatic convergence of such factors. Its founders came predominantly from the north and midlands of England, and they initially asserted themselves as such. This seemed to bely their theological universalism, and threaten national disintegration. Members appeared revulsed by L…
Theological Counsel in the Early Quaker Movement
Early Quakers have not typically been noted for their espousal of political counsel. This article proposes that its cohort powerfully made the case for the ‘counsel of God’ in politics. This counsel was, perhaps paradoxically, both intensively inward, deriving from the light of God within, and universalistic and external, given that counsel could emanate from any individual. This was distinct from most contemporary applications of conciliar rheto…
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Northern echoes
Studies of seventeenth-century Britain have increasingly recognised a multiplicity of centrifugal and centripetal identities at play. The early Quaker movement witnessed a dramatic convergence of such factors. Its founders came predominantly from the north and midlands of England, and they initially asserted themselves as such. This seemed to bely their theological universalism, and threaten national disintegration. Members appeared revulsed by L…
Theological Counsel in the Early Quaker Movement
Early Quakers have not typically been noted for their espousal of political counsel. This article proposes that its cohort powerfully made the case for the ‘counsel of God’ in politics. This counsel was, perhaps paradoxically, both intensively inward, deriving from the light of God within, and universalistic and external, given that counsel could emanate from any individual. This was distinct from most contemporary applications of conciliar rheto…
Thomas Denton’s Perambulation
This article uses a late seventeenth-century county survey as a key to understand conceptions of county, national, and international identity. Previous historians of ‘Britain’ and its composite nations have insufficiently attended to the interaction between these elements. Thomas Denton’s Perambulation of Cumberland, with additions on Westmorland, the Isle of Man, and Ireland, contains a wealth of evidence as to how a Cumbrian, English, and Briti…
Research note
Reflecting on two research notes in this editionof Quaker Studies, this conversation piece considers the commonalitiesbetween them and what they tell us about the direction of future research. Thecontent of each note concerns Quakerism in a local context – examining specificcivic, parochial, and educational debates in the East of England – suggesting aneed to write Quaker history in a plural fashion. Both authors equally reflect,however, on the m…
Research note
This research note contextualises, and in one case transcribes, two early pamphlets concerning the Quakers which remain difficult to access. In each, dated 1655 and 1659, we can see crucial early interactions between the movement and outsiders.The earlier, an anti-Quaker work, details a sexual scandal in Norfolk that brought criticism from within and without the movement, including local magistrates and an active puritan community. Though compile…
George Fox the Younger
Quakerism is conventionally viewed as a politically radical movement at its foundations. This thesis has been challenged recently, but the problem remains that early Quakers provided little justification for a politics comfortable with established social and political hierarchies. This article proposes that early Quakerism’s ‘incoherence’, a feature which intellectual historians are often alert to within political texts and movements, was patched…
A Question of Belief? Contesting Religion in Restoration England
Mark Goldie is a towering figure in the historiography of early modern England, with a wide body of work concerning the origins and formations of political and religious institutions, including nascent party groups. His essays and edited collections inform most other accounts of the period, and his cohort of influential supervisees is legion within academia
The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law
The Isle of Man and Britain’s Eighteenth-Century Empire
This article examines two debates concerning the British Empire. It discusses, firstly, the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in imperial-colonial studies, using the case study of the Isle of Man, a jurisdiction over which the crown assumed the customs rights in 1765. Historians of Britain’s empire have long recognised similarities between constitutional structures in the colonies and the motherland, but have been less attentive to co…
Sociology (8 works) · History (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (4 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Law (3 works)