Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630

ISBN-13: 9780198826330 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 528 str.

Michael Questier

Opis

During the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it was usual to consolidate power through lines of royal succession and marriage into other royal and princely families. Michael Questier shows that while this secured political power, it also caused a lot of religious upheaval in this period of already-fraught western Christendom.

Recenzje

Questier emphasizes that this is not counter-factual history, but alternative histories can be felt hovering in the background. What if Elizabeth I had been deposed and replaced by Mary Queen of Scots? What if the Armada or the Gunpowder Plot had succeeded? Questier delineates a world in which those things remained possibilities. ... by "incorporating the ideological fissures and fractures", Michael Questier has supplied us with a valuable sense of how contested, divisive and rebarbative the early modern political process remained.

O autorze

Michael Questier recently left East London to take up a senior research fellowship in the department of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He also holds an honorary chair in the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.