Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
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363 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

1 b/w illus.

Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

Series Vol. Number: 34

Imprint: Boydell Press

Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain

Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie

Edited by John Coffey, Justin Champion, Tim Harris and John Marshall

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This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment.

This volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment. Mark Goldie, Fellow of Churchill College and Professor of Intellectual History at Cambridge University, is one of the most distinguished historians of later Stuart Britain of his generation and has written extensively about politics, religion and ideas in Britain from the Restoration through to the Hanoverian succession. Based on original research, the chapters collected here reflect the range of his scholarly interests: in Locke, Tory and Whig political thought,and Puritan, Anglican and Catholic political engagement, as well as the transformative impact of the Glorious Revolution. They examine events as well as ideas and deal not only with England but also with Scotland, France and the Atlantic world. Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain will be of interest to later Stuart political and religious historians, Locke scholars and intellectual historians more generally.

JUSTIN CHAMPION is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

JOHN COFFEY is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester.

TIM HARRIS is Professor of History at Brown University.

JOHN MARSHALL is Professor of History at John Hopkins University.

CONTRIBUTORS: Justin Champion, John Coffey, Conal Condren, Gabriel Glickman, Tim Harris, Sarah Irving-Stonebraker, Clare Jackson, Warren Johnston, Geoff Kemp, Dmitri Levitin, John Marshall, Jacqueline Rose, S.-J. Savonius-Wroth, Hannah Smith, Delphine Soulard
Introduction - Justin Champion and John Coffey and Tim Harris and John Marshall
Constitutional Royalism Re-considered: Myth or Reality? - Tim Harris
Teaching Political Thought in the Restoration Divinity Faculty: Avant-Garde Episcopacy, the Two Kingdoms, and Christian Liberty - Dmitri Levitin
Violence, Protest and Resistance: Marvell and the Experience of Dissent after 1670 - Justin Champion
Bulstrode Whitelocke and the Limits of Puritan Politics in Restoration England - Jacqueline Rose
The Assassination of Archbishop Sharp: Religious Violence and Martyrdom in Restoration Scotland - John Coffey
Compassing Allegiance: Sir George Mackenzie and Restoration Scottish Royalism - Clare Jackson
Corruption and Regeneration in the Political Imagination of John Locke - S.-J. Savonius-Wroth
Locke the Censor, Locke the Anti-Censor - Geoff Kemp
London, Locke, and 1690s Provisions for the Poor in Context: Beggars, Spinners, and Slaves - John Marshall
The Reception of Locke's Politics: Locke in the République des Lettres - Delphine Soulard
Court Culture and Godly Monarchy: Henry Purcell and Sir Charles Sedley's 1692 Birthday Ode for Mary II - Hannah Smith
Thanksgivings and the Signs of the Times: The Apocalypse in the Long Eighteenth Century - Warren Johnston
The 'Secret Reformation' and the Origins of the Scottish Catholic Enlightenment - Gabriel Glickman
The Surprising Lineage of Useful Knowledge - Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
The Vicissitudes of Innovation: Confessional Politics, the State and Philosophy in Early Modern England - Conal Condren
Mark Goldie Bibliography
"This rich and fertile collection of essays, written by Mark Goldie's friends and former students to mark his retirement, is a fitting tribute to his intellectual contribution, range and influence over the last forty years." THE JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY
"This volume offers a series of unique perspectives on the different intellectual forces informing early modern England, in no way bound by the traditional lines of the history of ideas, and therefore stands as a fitting tribute to the methodologies championed by Mark Goldie." JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
"An important collection of essays and will become essential reading for all scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth century." SCOTTISH CHURCH HISTORY
"An excellent collection...These are well-written and well-researched essays, which together provide an excellent overview of recent scholarship on British political and religious ideas in the age which Goldie made his own." JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
"Does justice to Goldie as a historian of ideas, politics and religion, and as a scholar of Locke and his setting, of England as well as Scotland...Since most of the contributors write and think in the spirit of Goldie-or at least in interlocution with his work-this is an unusually even and coherent Festschrift." SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
"The pieces are all of high quality, casting vivid light on details of Restoration and 18th-century culture...These essays are all excellent." REVIEWS IN HISTORY
"[P]rovides a feast of chapters related to British religion and politics. The career of Goldie, now retired from Cambridge, has inspired a host of scholars who address topics that should be of interest to readers of this journal, especially those interested in religion and politics. And as one might expect from those in Goldie's milieu, the scholarship is impressive and the prose lucid." ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY
"The high quality essays should leave the reader in no doubt that the interconnected history of 'politics, religion and ideas', done in the Goldie fashion of in-depth contextualisation, is a worthy enterprise and...in the best of hands." Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies

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Title Details

363 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

1 b/w illus.

Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

Series Vol. Number: 34

Imprint: Boydell Press