Reading and politics in early modern England : the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman / / Geoff Baker
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| Autore: |
Baker Geoff <1981->
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| Titolo: |
Reading and politics in early modern England : the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman / / Geoff Baker
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 942.06092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Catholics - England - History - 17th century |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Family, friends and connections -- pt. II. Reading and reflections. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 persp |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading and politics in early modern England |
| ISBN: | 9781847797544 |
| 1847797547 | |
| 9781781701799 | |
| 1781701792 | |
| 9781847792655 | |
| 1847792650 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910968940903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.