Beasts with Claws”
The English Republic, the Presbyterian Peril, and the Ulster Question
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10064701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Armstrong (0000-0002-9391-5909, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 396-421 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/jbr.2021.120 |
| OpenAlex | W3193482183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Among the multitude of enemies facing the newly born English republic, the Presbyterians of Ulster posed a threat at once ideological and military. Such supporters of the new regime as John Milton derided the “blockish presbyters” of a “remote” province and denounced them as Scottish intruders upon English soil. But the threat they posed lay not only in their capacity to mobilize an armed population but to do so around religious and political positions drawn from a common stock of ideas present across the three kingdoms. The twin dangers could be made to serve polemical purposes within domestic English debate as the Commonwealth sought to counter the religious ambitions and constitutional challenges of those they branded as “Scottified” Presbyterians. In Ulster, the short-lived Presbyterian “revolt” proved a remarkable though fleeting success. Its proponents cultivated these transplanted ideas into fertile if fragile growth in the form of armed organization and communal mobilization. This episode attests to the importance of localizing ideology in precise contexts, and to the fact that print was only one vector, if a vital one, for its transmission
Commonwealth · Genealogy · Ideology · Kingdom · Media studies · Multitude · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · The Republic · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Demography · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
Edward Gee and the Matter of Authority
The Ulster Scots and the Engagement, 1647–8
Printing the Regicide of Charles I
The Barwis Affair
John Dillingham, journalist of the Middle Group 1
The ‘Northern Gentlemen’, the Parliamentary Independents, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Long Parliament
The Levellers and the Conquest of Ireland in 1649
The Irish ‘Independents’ and Viscount Lisle’s Lieutenancy of Ireland
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |