The Restoration [[electronic resource] ] : England in the 1660s / / N.H. Keeble

• Record Nr.: UNISA996202105203316
• Autore: Keeble N. H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2002
• ISBN: 1-281-32126-5; 9786611321260; 0-470-70032-7; 0-470-75831-7; 0-470-75816-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Collana: A history of early modern England
• Disciplina: 941.06; 941.066; 942.066
• Soggetti: Electronic books.; Great Britain History; Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685; Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688; England Civilization 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 (p. [208]-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Restoration; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Conventions, Procedures and Dates; Introduction; 1 The Return of the King (1658-1660); 1 The Fall of the Protectorate (September 1658-April 1659); 2 The Rump Restored (May-September 1659); 3 Don Juan Lamberto (October-December 1659); 4 The Long Parliament Restored (January-March 1660); 5 Monarchy Restored (April-May 1660); 2 The Restoration Year (1660-1661); 1 'Past all humane policy'; 2 The Royal Martyr; 3 'A time of universal festivity & joy'; 4 Restoration or Revolution?; 5 Executions and Exhumations; 3 Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660)1 Images of the King; 2 'Our good old Form'; 3 The Declaration of Breda; 4 The Act of Oblivion; 5 The Convention Settlement; 4 Royal Servants: Clarendon ; and the Cavalier Parliament (1661-1667); 1 Court and Country; 2 The Cavalier Settlement; 3 'The fat Scriv'ner'; 4 The Costs of War; 5 'The old man's going away'; 5 Fathers in God: The Church of England; 1 The Worcester House Declaration; 2 The Act of Uniformity; 3 Comprehension, Indulgence and the Clarendon Code; 4 Laudians and Latitude-men; 5 Giant Pope; 6 'The Patience of Heroic Fortitude': Nonconformity, Sedition and Dissent1 'Fall'n on evil days': Milton and Bunyan; 2 The Experience of Persecution; 3 Nonconformist Culture; 4 The Licensing Act and the Press; 5 Radicals, Republicans and Plotters; 7 'Luxury with Charles restor'd'? The Temper of the Times; 1 'A yeare of prodigies' (1665-1666); 2 'Things going to wrack'; 3 The Cabal (1667-1670); 4 Porno-politics; 5 À la mode; 8 'Male and Female Created He Them'; 1 Men and Women; 2 The Weaker Vessel; 3 'An honourable estate'; 4 A Woman's Place; 5 Men of the World; Afterword; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.