Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9804269 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Scott (0000-0002-4555-3069, University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 500 |
| Pages | 209-211 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem423 |
| OpenAlex | W2046765821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Essay collections, including conference proceedings, are becoming harder to publish. Ashgate are to be congratulated on this volume which makes me wish I had attended the conference. It is hard for any book to convey how pivotal the 1680s were in English and European history. During this decade, which began with French diplomatic and ended with Dutch military intervention in England, issues which had tormented North-West European religious politics for more than a century developed decisively. That the book under review delivers such an insight into this world derives not only from the success of the editor and contributors in producing a tightly woven, scholarly and well-written collection but equally from the idea of focusing it upon a single massive primary source: the manuscript ‘Entring Book’ of nonconformist cleric Roger Morrice, kept from 1677 to 1691. Gathering material for a projected history of Britain since the Reformation, Morrice also recorded the events of a period when the fate of that Reformation hung in a balance, the scales of which—projecting towards France on the one hand and the United Provinces on the other—appeared to centre in England and in particular in the great Protestant metropolis of London. Nor was Morrice the only one to turn his anxiety about the culmination of a more than century old popish plot toward compilation of a written record; others, as we are reminded by David Wykes and Mark Knights, included Ralph Thoresby and Narcissus Luttrell. The European dimension of this popish menace is underlined by Robin Gwynn, who records the impact upon English perceptions of Stuart policy of the two waves of Huguenot refugees who arrived in 1681 and 1687; and by Charles-Edouard Levillain, who emphasises not only the importance of events in France to these perceptions, but also that of the urban political environment of the United Provinces in preparing the Dutch army and its commander William III for their successful occupation of England's capital city
Nonconformist · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity
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Between Revolutions
Publicity and Privacy in the History of the British Coffeehouse
Opposition to Anti-Popery in Restoration England
Bound up with Meaning
Daily News and the Construction of Time in Late Stuart England, 1695–1714
Publics and Participation
The ‘Impartiality’ of Narcissus Luttrell's Reading Practices and Historical Writing, 1679–1710
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2018 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |