Overview

This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of 1642-46, but that they divided instead along regional lines, certain areas supporting Parliament, others supporting the King. The second is that this general rule applied to cities too, and that in urban communities it is possible to discern both 'Royalist' and 'Parliamentarian' parishes. The third is that these internal divisions were not simply temporary alignments, conjured up by extraordinary circumstances, but that they reflected deep and enduring splits in local society, contrasting patterns of popular behaviour stretching back over very many years.

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Author:   Prof. Mark Stoyle
Publisher:   University of Exeter
Imprint:   University of Exeter
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780859895002

ISBN 10:   0859895009
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   01 February 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface PART I: THE CONTEXT Introduction 1. A Portrait of Early Stuart Devon PART II: PATTERNS OF ALLEGIANCE, 1642-1646 Introduction Chronology 2. 'The Well-affected Corner': Popular Parliamentarianism in Devon, 1642-1646 3. 'Our Ill-affected Country Parishes': The Strongholds of Popular Royalism 4. Refining the Picture: Further Light on Allegiance Patterns 5. A Fractured Polity: Allegiances in Exeter 6. Neutralism: The Case of the Clubmen PART III: THE DETERMINANTS OF ALLEGIANCE, c.1600-1642 Introduction 7. Deference or Defiance? The Role of the Gentry 8. An Ecology of Allegiance? Ethnology, Land Use and Occupation 9. 'True Blades for Liberties': Pre-war Opposition to the Caroline Regime 10. 'True Blades for Religion': The Role of Puritanism 11. 'Mere Conventicles of Bad Fellows': The Cultural and Religious Determinants of Popular Royalism PART IV: THE NATIONAL PICTURE Introduction 12. 'Out of the Dust of the Earth'? Notes Appendix: Devon Parishes Bibliography Index

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.,. is a model of scrupulous scholarship, which sets a high standard to imitate for those who seek in future to apply similar techniques to other counties in order to interpret popular attitudes to the rival parties in the English Civil War. --War in History 6 (2) 1999

Author Information

Mark Stoyle is Professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He specialises in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the 'British crisis' of the 1640s; cultural, ethnic and religious identity in Wales and Cornwall between 1450 and 1700; and popular memory of the English Civil War from 1660 to the present day.    

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