The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663

The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663
Author: Kirsteen M. Mackenzie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317026527

This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular attention to links, similarities and differences in and between the covenanted interest in all three kingdoms. It also follows the fortunes of the covenanted interest and Presbyterian Church government as it built and changed in response to the Royalists and the Independents during the 1650s.

Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere

Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere
Author: Ina Ferris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137367601

This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations that were obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book.