Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion

Cheshire on the Eve of Civil War

Richard Cust, Peter Lake

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Manchester University Press
12 June 2020

British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; English Civil War; Religion & politics

Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture and the extent to which early Stuart Cheshire could be said to be a 'county community'. It also investigates how the county's governing elite and puritan religious establishment responded to highly polarising interventions by the central government and Laudian ecclesiastical authorities during Charles I's Personal Rule. The second half of the book provides a rich and detailed analysis of petitioning movements and side-taking in Cheshire in 1641-2. An important contribution to understanding the local origins and outbreak of civil war in England, the book will be of interest to all students and scholars studying the English revolution. -- .

By: Richard Cust, Peter Lake
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9781526114402
ISBN 10: 1526114402
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 12 June 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part I: The Cheshire gentry and their world 1 The culture of dynasticism 2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman 3 The governance of the shire Part I conclusion Part II: The Personal Rule and its problems 4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s 5 Puritans and ecclesiastical government Part II conclusion Part III: The crisis, 1641–42 6 Petitioning and the search for settlement 7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise? 8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil war Part III conclusion Bibliography of manuscript sources Index -- .

Richard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham Peter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Reviews for Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion: Cheshire on the Eve of Civil War

'It [Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion] broadens our understanding of the ideology and material culture of the pre–Civil War gentry, and it shows how, even in counties with long efforts at consensus, tensions' Journal of British Studies -- .