London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638–64

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ID23196322
AuthorsElliot Vernon (0000-0002-9094-3226, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-09-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLondon Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638-64 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherManchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7765/9781526157812
OpenAlexW3202838287
ISBN9781526157812
LanguageEN
Citations received8

This book seeks to locate the London presbyterian movement in the metropolitan, parliamentarian and British politics of the mid-seventeenth-century crisis. It explores the emergence of the presbyterian movement in London from the collapse of Charles I's monarchy, the movement's influence on the parliamentarian political struggles of the civil war and interregnum and concludes by looking at the beginnings of Restoration nonconformity. The work covers the political, intellectual and social history of the London presbyterian movement, looking at the development of ideas of presbyterian church government and political theory, as well as exploring the London presbyterians' mobilisation and organisation to establish their vision of reforming the Reformation. The work addresses the use of the 'information revolution' in the British revolution, analysing religious disputation, the political use of rumour and gossip and the interface between oral and written culture. It argues that the London presbyterian movement, whose participants are often the foils to explorations of other individuals or groups in historical writing, was critical to the dynamic of the politics of the period.

Economic history · English Revolution · Interregnum · Management · Monarchy · Nonconformity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Early Modern Women Writers · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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