Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674

ISBN-13: 9780367890070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Philip Major

Opis

Clarendon Reconsidered is a lively new account of a major figure in seventeenth-century British history, politics and literature. It reappraises the life and career of the foremost statesman of the Caroline court and the author of the History of the Rebellion, then and for long afterwards the most sophisticated history written in English.

Spis treści

Introduction  Philip Major  1. A Royalist Reads the News: Sir Edward Hyde and Civil War Journalism  Jason Peacey  2. Edward Hyde and the Villiers Family  Geoffrey Smith  3. Royalists in War and Peace: Clarendon and the Burdens of Loyalty  Barbara Donagan  4. Clarendon Against Hobbes?  Jon Parkin  5. "All Things Serious and Sacred": Clarendon as Essayist  Martin Dzelzainis  6. The Life of Clarendon: History and Memoir in England and France  Paul Seaward  7. "That Fatal Desolation": Toleration and Calamity Rehearsed in the Early Restoration  Matthew Birchwood  8. "This Heavenly Exercise": Clarendon and the Psalms  Philip Major

O autorze

Philip Major is an Associate Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London.