03226nam 2200793 a 450 991079173490332120200520144314.01-84779-754-71-78170-179-21-84779-265-010.7765/9781847792655(CKB)2560000000085674(EBL)1069650(OCoLC)818847416(SSID)ssj0000712835(PQKBManifestationID)12259415(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712835(PQKBWorkID)10649334(PQKB)10981722(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086816(OCoLC)1132668345(MdBmJHUP)muse77996(Au-PeEL)EBL1069650(CaPaEBR)ebr10623324(CaONFJC)MIL843547(MiAaPQ)EBC1069650(DE-B1597)660701(DE-B1597)9781847792655(EXLCZ)99256000000008567420100716d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading and politics in early modern England[electronic resource] the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman /Geoff BakerManchester ;New York Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan20101 online resource (251 p.)Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern BritainPolitics, culture, and society in early modern BritainDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-9124-1 0-7190-8024-X Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Family, friends and connections -- pt. II. Reading and reflections.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 perspPolitics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.CatholicsEnglandHistory17th centuryGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1714Catholicism.Little Crosby.Poor Clares.Protestants.Rouen.William Blundell.civil conflicts.history of reading.penal laws.rebellion.CatholicsHistory942.06092Baker Geoff1981-1503994MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791734903321Reading and politics in early modern England3828549UNINA