The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution
Edited by Michael J. Braddick
Abstract
This volume brings together leading historians of the period of the English revolution. It introduces readers to the crisis from this, the most familiar, perspective but explores how those events grew out of, and resonated, in the politics of each of the Three Kingdoms (England, Scotland, and Ireland), and in their interactions. It therefore captures a shared British and Irish history, and also a comparative history of the significance of events and outcomes in each of the Three Kingdoms. In doing so it offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the regicide and Cromwellian period. It explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than has been conventional. They are approached not simply as a political, economic, and social crisis, but as a challenge to predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. As well as providing up-to-date analysis of political events, therefore, it considers the structures of social and political life that shaped and were reshaped by the crisis. A number of chapters explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in these areas and in a wider European context.
Keywords:
English civil war,
English revolution,
Wars of the Three Kingdoms,
Irish Rising,
Confederate Ireland,
Covenanters,
regicide,
Cromwellian regime
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Mar 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199695898
- Published online:
- Dec 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695898.001.0001
