The Political Bible in Early Modern England

The Political Bible in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107107970

This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

Catalogues of Books

Catalogues of Books
Author: Jonathan Edwards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0300133944

This final volume in The Works of Jonathan Edwards publishes for the first time Edwards’ “Catalogue,” a notebook he kept of books of interest, especially titles he hoped to acquire, and entries from his “Account Book,” a ledger in which he noted books loaned to family, parishioners, and fellow clergy. These two records, along with several shorter documents presented in the volume, illuminate Edwards’ own mental universe while also providing a remarkable window into the wider intellectual and print cultures of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic. An extensive critical introduction places Edwards’ book lists in the contexts that shaped his reading agenda, and the result is the most comprehensive treatment yet of his reading and of the fascinating peculiarities of his time and place.

1659

1659
Author: Ruth Elisabeth Mayers
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0861932684

In a comprehensive examination of the restored Commonwealth, Dr. Mayers redresses that imbalance. She explores in turn the sources of the Republic's adverse reputation, Parliament's domestic priorities, internal dynamics, and relations with the Army, the City of London, and the English and Welsh provinces, as well as foreign policy, the challenge of ruling Scotland, Ireland and the colonies, and the sophisticated republican endeavour to imagine the future constitution and project a positive political identity through ceremonial, iconography and the print debates.