03094nam 2200757 a 450 991096894090332120240313075729.097818477975441847797547978178170179917817017929781847792655184779265010.7765/9781847792655(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(Perlego)1526938(EXLCZ)99256000000008567420100716d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading and politics in early modern England the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman /Geoff Baker1st ed.Manchester ;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.9780719091247 0719091241 9780719080241 071908024X 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 government1603-1714CatholicsHistory942.06092Baker Geoff1981-1503994MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968940903321Reading and politics in early modern England4364893UNINA