Author

Publication

2012 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

124,000 words, Guess

Page Count

496 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780199570492
  • Open LibraryOL28475802M

Classifications

  • LCCDA405
  • LCCDA427 .W67 2012
  • LCCDA426 .W67 2012

Description

"The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660"--Jacket.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver CromwellOxford University Press2012-01-01

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