ABSTRACT
John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its political sociology. Taken together, they offer a remarkably coherent account of the period as a whole.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |29 pages
The Nature of the English Revolution 1
part |145 pages
England's Wars of Religion
chapter |12 pages
Introduction: England's Wars of Religion 1
chapter |24 pages
The Religious Context of the English Civil War
chapter |22 pages
The Attack on the Church of England in the Long Parliament
chapter |27 pages
The Scottish National Covenant of 1638 in its British Context 1
chapter |30 pages
The Making of Oliver Cromwell
chapter |28 pages
The Church in England 1642-1649
part |65 pages
Problems of Allegiance
chapter |23 pages
The Northern Gentry and the Great Rebellion
chapter |10 pages
Provincial Squires and 'Middling Sorts' in the Great Rebellion
chapter |18 pages
The Ecology of Allegiance in the English Civil Wars
part |211 pages
The Nature and Consequences of the English Revolution