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  • The Trials of Edward Vaughan

    Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661

    by Lloyd Bowen ...
    This book tells a remarkable story. Edward Vaughan was the fifth son of a landed gentleman, and could not have expected much beyond a career in law. However, by fair means and foul (mostly foul), he managed to gain possession of one of the largest estates in seventeenth-century Wales. His tenure was not to be a quiet one, however, as the Protestant Vaughan endured a bruising legal contest with a ... Read more

    $24.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Modern Wales c.1536–c.1689

    Ambiguous Nationhood

    by Lloyd Bowen ...
    Series Book 1 - Rethinking the History of Wales
    This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It adopts novel perspectives on concepts of Welsh identity and allegiance to examine epochal events, such as the union of England and Wales under Henry ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England

    Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law

    by Lloyd Bowen ...
    This book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the close examination and contextualisation of the most fully documented duel of the early modern era. This was the fatal encounter between a Flintshire gentleman, Edward Morgan, and his Cheshire antagonist, John Egerton, which took place at Highgate on 21 April 1610. John Egerton was killed, but controversy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions

    by Lloyd Bowen ...
    This is the first book-length treatment of the ‘turncoat’ John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648. The volume charts Poyer’s rise from a humble glover in Pembroke to become parliament’s most significant supporter in Wales during the First Civil War (1642–6), and argues that he was a more complex and significant individual than most ... Read more

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  • Remembering the English Civil Wars

    Edited by Lloyd Bowen, Mark Stoyle ...
    Series series Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
    Remembering the English Civil Wars is the first collection of essays to explore how the bloody struggle which took place between the supporters of king and parliament during the 1640s was viewed in retrospect.The English Civil Wars were perhaps the most calamitous series of conflicts in the country’s recorded history. Over the past twenty years there has been a surge of interest in the way that ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • The Common Freedom of the People

    John Lilburne and the English Revolution

    by Michael Braddick ...
    The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through the arm, and nearly lost an eye in a pike accident. In the course of all this, he fought ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Failed King?

    by Rosemary Horrox ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers.In ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625–1642

    by Richard Cust ...
    This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility. He reveals how the peers reasserted themselves as the natural leaders of the political nation during ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Brave community

    The Digger Movement in the English Revolution

    by John Gurney ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George’s Hill in Surrey and called on all ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Leveller Revolution

    Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650

    by John Rees ...
    The gripping story of the Levellers, the radical movement at the heart of the English RevolutionThe Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men—including John Lilburne, Richard Overton and Thomas Rainsborough—and women who ensured ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Theater of State

    Parliament and Political Culture in Early Stuart England

    by Chris Kyle ...
    This book chronicles the expansion and creation of new public spheres in and around Parliament in the early Stuart period. It focuses on two closely interconnected narratives: the changing nature of communication and discourse within parliamentary chambers and the interaction of Parliament with the wider world of political dialogue and the dissemination of information. Concentrating on the rapidly ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Dangerous Talk

    Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England

    by David Cressy ...
    Dangerous Talk examines the 'lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding' speech of ordinary men and women who spoke scornfully of kings and queens. Eavesdropping on lost conversations, it reveals the expressions that got people into trouble, and follows the fate of some of the offenders. Introducing stories and characters previously unknown to history, David Cressy explores ... Read more

    $38.69 USD