LEADER 03226nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910791734903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84779-754-7 010 $a1-78170-179-2 010 $a1-84779-265-0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781847792655 035 $a(CKB)2560000000085674 035 $a(EBL)1069650 035 $a(OCoLC)818847416 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000712835 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12259415 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712835 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10649334 035 $a(PQKB)10981722 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086816 035 $a(OCoLC)1132668345 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77996 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1069650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623324 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL843547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1069650 035 $a(DE-B1597)660701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781847792655 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000085674 100 $a20100716d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading and politics in early modern England$b[electronic resource] $ethe mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman /$fGeoff Baker 210 $aManchester ;$aNew York $cManchester University Press $cDistributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain 225 0$aPolitics, culture, and society in early modern Britain 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7190-9124-1 311 $a0-7190-8024-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. I. Family, friends and connections -- pt. II. Reading and reflections. 330 $aThis book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset.Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He actively defended his family from the penal laws and used the relative freedom that this gave him to patronise other Catholics. Not only did he rewrite the histories of recent civil conflicts to show that Protestants were prone to rebellion and Catholics to loyalty, but we also find a different persp 410 0$aPolitics, culture, and society in early modern Britain. 606 $aCatholics$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1603-1714 610 $aCatholicism. 610 $aLittle Crosby. 610 $aPoor Clares. 610 $aProtestants. 610 $aRouen. 610 $aWilliam Blundell. 610 $acivil conflicts. 610 $ahistory of reading. 610 $apenal laws. 610 $arebellion. 615 0$aCatholics$xHistory 676 $a942.06092 700 $aBaker$b Geoff$f1981-$01503994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791734903321 996 $aReading and politics in early modern England$93828549 997 $aUNINA