1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996210228703316

Titolo

International bulletin of missionary research

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ventnor, N.J.] : , : Overseas Ministries Study Center, , [1981-2015]

ISSN

0272-6122

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Missions

Christian Evangelism

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791734903321

Autore

Baker Geoff <1981->

Titolo

Reading and politics in early modern England [[electronic resource] ] : the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman / / Geoff Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

ISBN

1-84779-754-7

1-78170-179-2

1-84779-265-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain

Disciplina

942.06092

Soggetti

Catholics - England - History - 17th century

Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714

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

pt. I. Family, friends and connections -- pt. II. Reading and reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset.Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He actively defended his family from the penal laws and used the relative freedom that this gave him to patronise other Catholics. Not only did he rewrite the histories of recent civil conflicts to show that Protestants were prone to rebellion and Catholics to loyalty, but we also find a different persp