Words at war : the contested language of the English Civil War /
The English Civil War was not simply a conflict between two opposing, unstable, complicated alliances of various factions, but a war of words. Supporters of the King and allies of Parliament and the New Model Army clashed over ideals, ideas and concepts as they each sought to impose their understand...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
261. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond
- Part I: God and providence
- God in scripture study aids / Katrin Ettenhuber
- God in Hobbes / Victoria Silver
- Providence in Browne / Matthew C. Augustine
- Providence in the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell / N.H. Keeble
- Part II: Freedom and servitude
- Freedom in early Quaker tracts / N.H. Keeble
- Slavery in John Taylor / Phil Withington
- Freedom in the cavalier poets / Nicholas McDowell
- Part III: Nature and law
- Nature and natural law in radical writing / Andrew Hadfield
- Law in Clarendon / Paul Hammond
- Nature in Cowley / Gillian Wright
- Nature in Lovelace / Andrew Hadfield
- Part IV: King and people
- The people in Marvell and Cavendish / Niall Allsopp
- The king in the parliamentary debates of 1657 / Alice Hunt
- The people in royalist women's writing / Ruth Connolly
- The king and the people in the newsbooks / Jack Avery
- Part V: Conscience and virtue
- Conscience in Marvell / Stewart Mottram
- Conscience and nation in Milton 1640-1660 / Elizabeth Sauer
- Virtue in defeat in Davenant and Cowley / Christopher Tilmouth
- Virtue in Milton / Paul Hammond
- Part VI: A legacy
- Checks and balances : the birth of a vocabulary / Blair Worden.