This meticulously researched and wide-ranging book is the first comprehensive study of Thomas Edwards's Gangraena, probably the most important printed work of the English revolution. It provides a vivid account of the printed polemic of the revolution and its place in the religious and political mobilisation of the mid-1640s. Hughes's book is a contribution to the history of Presbyterianism, of London, of parliamentarian fragmentation, and of reading during the revolution. It combines the new `history of the book' with a concern for politics and religion during the crisis of the English revolution.

Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution

Literature & Fiction

Hughes, Ann

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

This is the first edition of the complete works of Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76), the foremost radical social thinker and activist of the English Revolution. It is the only edition to observe the standards of modern scholarly editing. The editorial team combines the expertise of acclaimed prize-winning literary scholars and a leading historian of seventeenth-century England. It sets a new standard in the presentation of controversial prose of the period of the English Civil War. Its substantial introduction establishes Winstanley's distinctive contributions to political thought and radical religion and elucidates his literary achievements, while the annotation elucidates the wealth of his biblical allusion and his engagement with the politics of his day. This edition ensures Winstanley's standing as one of the most significant prose writers and radical thinkers of early modern England. All scholars and students of English literature, history, religion, and political thought will want to use this book.

The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley: Two-Volume Set

Corns, Thomas N.

Loewenstein, David

In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts of masculinity and femininity were called into question by the war and the trial and execution of an anointed King. Ann Hughes combines discussion of the activities of women in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution, with a pioneering analysis of how male political identities were fractured by civil war. Traditional parallels and analogies between marriage, the family and the state were shaken, and rival understandings of sexuality, manliness, effeminacy and womanliness were deployed in political debate. In a historiography dominated by military or political approaches, Gender and the English Revolution reveals the importance of gender in understanding the events in England during the 1640s and 1650s. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in women’s history, feminism, gender or British History.

Gender and the English Revolution

History

Europe

Routledge

This book discusses the origins, impact and aftermath of the Civil War in Warwickshire, examining administration, religion and politics in their social context. The focus is mainly on the landed élite, but the importance of relationships between members of the élite and their social inferiors is also stressed. Early chapters discuss the economic and social character of Warwickshire; a middle section examines the onset of the Civil War in 1642; and finally there is a discussion of the economic impact of the war and the administrative, political and religious changes of the 1640s and 1650s, culminating in an assessment of the significance of the Restoration. Dr Hughes takes a critical approach to recent historiography, and challenges the concept of a 'county community'. The book is intended as a contribution to a general understanding of the Civil War, rather than as a study of one particular county.

Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)

Cambridge University Press

This important collection of essays, based on extensive original research, presents a vigorous critique of ` revisionist' analyses of the period, and reasserts the importance of long term ideological and social developments in causing the outbreak of the civil war.

Conflict in Early Stuart England

Cust, Richard

A bibliography organized into three broad periods: c. 500-c. 1500 (Medieval); c. 1500-c. 1800 (Early Modern); and c. 1800 to the present (Modern). Some 50 subdivisions within each chronological period list material published in Britain before 1993 concerning such topics as women and the family, women's legal status, prostitution, witchcraft, and autobiography. Includes a methodological section at the beginning of the volume and a general section at the beginning of each chronological period. Cross-referenced, but not exhaustively. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

British Women's History: A Bibliographical Guide (History and Related Disciplines Select Bibliographies)

Reference

Stafford, Pauline

Hannam, June

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Manchester Univ Pr

We feed a deer (Headway program)

Open Court

Lee meets a seal (Headway program)

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