The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

Oxford Handbooks

Provides a unique introduction to the English Revolution and the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context
Brings together perspectives from thirty-one foremost scholars in the field of English Revolution studies
Offers an up-to-date survey of the social, political, and religious thought of the time
Suggests alternative viewpoints to the scholarship and debate of the past few decades, providing a potential focus for new research agendas

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

Description

This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms--England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In doing so, the Handbook offers a broader context for the history of the Scottish Covenanters, the Irish Rising of 1641, and the government of Confederate Ireland, as well as the British and Irish perspective on the English civil wars, the English revolution, the Regicide, and Cromwellian period.

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution explores the significance of these events on a much broader front than conventional studies. The events are approached not simply as political, economic, and social crises, but as challenges to the predominant forms of religious and political thought, social relations, and standard forms of cultural expression. The contributors provide up-to-date analysis of the political happenings, considering the structures of social and political life that shaped and were re-shaped by the crisis. The Handbook goes on to explore the long-term legacies of the crisis in the Three Kingdoms and their impact in a wider European context.

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

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Introduction
1. Civil war and revolution in England, Scotland and Ireland, Michael J. Braddick
2. Post-Reformation Politics, or on not Looking for the Long-Term Causes of the English Civil War, Peter Lake
Events
3. The Rise of the Covenanters, 1637-1644, Julian Goodare
4. The Collapse of Royal Power in England, 1637-1642, Richard Cust
5. The Irish Rising, Joseph Cope
6. War and politics in England and Wales 1642-1646, Michael J. Braddick
7. Scottish Politics, 1644-1651, Laura A. M. Stewart
8. The Centre Cannot Hold: Ireland 1643-1649, Micheal O Siochru
9. The regicide, Philip Baker
10. Security and Reform in England's Other Nations 1649-1658, Derek Hirst
11. English politics in the 1650s, David L. Smith
12. The Restoration in Britain and Ireland, Tim Harris
Institutions and actors
13. Oliver Cromwell, J. C. Davis
14. Parliaments and Constitutions, David L. Smith
15. The Armies, Andrew Hopper
16. The Revolution in Print, Jason Peacey
17. State and Society in the English Revolution, Stephen K. Roberts
18. Urban Citizens and England's Civil Wars, Phil Withington
19. Crowds and Popular Politics in the English Revolution, John Walter
20. 'Gender trouble': Women's agency and gender relations in the English Revolution, Ann Hughes
21. State, politics and society in Scotland, 1637-1660, R. Scott Spurlock
22. State, politics and society in Ireland, 1641-1662, Toby Barnard
Parties, ideas and people
23. The Persistence of Royalism, Alan Cromartie
24. Varieties of Parliamentarianism, Rachel Foxley
25. Political thought, Ted Vallance
26. Religious Thought, John Coffey
27. 'May you live in interesting times': The literature of Civil War, Revolution and Restoration, Steven N. Zwicker
28. The Art and Architecture of War, Revolution and Restoration, Timothy Wilks
Wider perspectives
29. The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Economic and Social Development, John Miller
30. The Long-Term Consequences of the English Revolution: Politics, Political Thought and the Constitution, Mark Knights
31. Cultural Legacies: The English Revolution in Nineteenth-Century British and French Literature and Art, Laura Lunger Knoppers
32. The English Revolution in British and Irish context, John Morrill
33. Kingdom Divided: the British and Continental European Conflicts Compared, Peter H. Wilson

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Michael J. Braddick was educated at Cambridge University where he took both his BA and PhD degrees. Before coming to Sheffield in 1990, he taught at the University of Alabama and Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities from 2009-2013. Braddick has held visiting positions at the Huntington Library, California, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, and at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on aspects of state formation and popular politics, the English revolution, and the growth of the British Atlantic world.

Contributors:

Philip Baker, University of Buckingham
Toby Barnard, University of Oxford
Michael J. Braddick, University of Sheffield
John Coffey, University of Leicester
Joseph Cope, SUNY Geneseo
Alan Cromartie, University of Reading
Richard Cust, University of Birmingham
J. C. Davis, University of East Anglia
Rachel Foxley, University of Reading
Julian Goodare, University of Edinburgh
Tim Harris, Brown University
Derek Hirst, Washington University, St Louis
Andrew Hopper, Leicester University
Ann Hughes, Keele University
Mark Knights, Warwick University
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Penn State University
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
John Miller, QMUL
John Morrill, University of Cambridge
Micheal O Siochru, Trinity College, Dublin
Jason Peacey, University College, London
Stephen K. Roberts, History of Parliament Trust
David L. Smith, University of Cambridge
R. Scott Spurlock, University of Glasgow
Laura A. M. Stewart, University of York
Ted Vallance, Roehampton University
John Walter, University of Essex
Timothy Wilks, Solent University
Peter H. Wilson, University of Oxford
Phil Withington, University of Sheffield
Steven N. Zwicker, Washington University, St Louis

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

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Reviews and Awards

"Michael Braddick has assembled a highly useful compendium of recent research by thirty international scholars on a subject of perennial interest." -- Joseph P. Ward, Seventeenth Century News

"It is impossible not to be impressed with the job done by the editor and his contributors in bringing this volume together. It is a marvellous point for advanced undergraduates and graduate researchers." -- James Loxley, Seventeenth Century News

"The editor is to be congratulated on assembling an impressive team." -- Keith M. Brown, Scottish Historical Review

"It is impossible not to be impressed with the job done by the editor and his contributors in bringing this volume together. It is a marvellous reference point for advanced undergraduates and graduate researchers, and an excellent summation or aide memoire for the rest of us." -- James Loxley, University of Edinburgh, The Seventeenth Century

The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

Edited by Michael J. Braddick

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The Battle of Marston Moor and the English Revolution

As a schoolboy I was told that on the eve of the battle of Marston Moor in 1644, as the rival armies drew up, a sturdy yokel was found ploughing his fields. When brought up to speed about the war between King and parliament he asked, "What has they two fallen out again?".

Posted on June 29, 2015

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