Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen of the English Revolution

by Edited by Ian Gentles , John Morrill , Blair Worden

• ISBN13: 9780521591201
• ISBN10: 0521591201
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of essays examines the struggles of the people of England with the collapse of civilization as they knew it. As the country fell into civil war and near anarchy, the people sought out in word and action how to preserve what could still be preserved or to create new political, religious and social certainties. The authors discuss individuals or groups who were soldiers, writers or statesmen of the Civil Wars or the Interregnum, people who were at the centre of power or in more humble and localized circumstances. All of the authors take their inspiration from the work of Austin Woolrych, whose own books and articles focus on these very questions. This volume is published in his honour.

Table of Contents

Austin Woolrych	Frontispiece
Preface	ix
JOHN MORRILL
Austin Woolrych: an appreciation	1	(18)
LESLEY LE CLAIRE
1 Secret alliance and Protestant agitation in two kingdoms: the early Caroline background to the Irish Rebellion of 1641	19	(17)
JOHN REEVE
2 Of armies and architecture: the employments of Robert Scawen	36	(32)
JOHN ADAMSON
3 George Digby, Royalist intrigue and the collapse of the cause	68	(23)
IAN ROY
4 The iconography of revolution: England 1642-1649	91	(23)
IAN GENTLES
5 The casualties of war: treatment of the dead and wounded in the English Civil War	114	(19)
BARBARA DONAGAN
6 `A bastard kind of militia', localism, and tactics in the second civil war	133	(18)
SARAH BARBER
7 Cromwell's commissioners for preserving the peace of the commonwealth: a Staffordshire case study	151	(32)
JOHN SUTTON
8 Colonel Gervase Benson, Captain John Archer and the corporation of Kendal, c. 1644-c. 1655	183	(19)
C.B. PHILLIPS
9 Repacifying the polity: the responses of Hobbes and Harrington to the `crisis of the common law'	202	(27)
GLENN BURGESS
10 Equality in an unequal commonwealth: James Harrington's republicanism and the meaning of equality	229	(14)
J.C. DAVIS
11 John Milton and Oliver Cromwell	243	(22)
BLAIR WORDEN
12 From pillar to post: Milton and the attack on republican humanism at the Restoration	265	(21)
NICHOLAS VON MALTZAHN
13 `They that pursew perfaction on earth...': the political progress of Robert Overton	286	(18)
BARBARA TAFT
14 Locke no Leveller	304	(19)
G.E. AYLMER
A bibliography of the writings of Austin Woolrych 1955-95	323	(13)
SARA COOMBS
Index	336
Frontispiece photograph
Gerard Hearne