LEADER 03094nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910968940903321 005 20240313075729.0 010 $a9781847797544 010 $a1847797547 010 $a9781781701799 010 $a1781701792 010 $a9781847792655 010 $a1847792650 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(Perlego)1526938 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 $ethe mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman /$fGeoff Baker 205 $a1st ed. 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 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780719091247 311 08$a0719091241 311 08$a9780719080241 311 08$a071908024X 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$y1603-1714 615 0$aCatholics$xHistory 676 $a942.06092 700 $aBaker$b Geoff$f1981-$01503994 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968940903321 996 $aReading and politics in early modern England$94364893 997 $aUNINA