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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788620203321

Autore

Milton Anthony

Titolo

Laudian and royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England [[electronic resource] ] : the career and writings of Peter Heylyn / / Anthony Milton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-84779-568-4

1-78170-081-8

1-84779-150-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Disciplina

828.409

Soggetti

Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century

Reformation - England - 17th century

Royalists - England - 17th century

Polemics in literature

Reformation in literature

Religious disputations - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The making of a Laudian polemicist?; Chapter 2 'Civill warres amongst the Clergy',1632-1640; Chapter 3 The voice of Laudianism? Polemic and ideology in Heylyn's 1630's writings; Chapter 4 Prosecution, royalism and newsbooks: Heylyn and the Civil War; Chapter 5 Dealing with the Interregnum; Chapter 6 Ecclesia Restaurata? Heylyn and the Restoration church, 1660-1688; Chapter 7 Conclusion: religion and politics in Heylyn's career and writings; Bibliography of selected primary sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. It provides for the first time a detailed analysis of the ways in which Laudian and royalist polemical literature was created, tracing continuities and



changes in a single corpus of writings from 1621 through to 1662. In the process, the author presents important new perspectives on the origins and development of Laudianism and 'Anglicanism' and on the tensions within royalist thought.Milton's book is neither a conventional biography nor simply a study of printed work