Suchergebnisse

Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation and population expansion in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Overall he stresses that social change combined with social continuity to produce a distinctive early modern English society

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Detecting the Ultimate Conspiracy, or how Waldensians became Witches -- chapter 3 Conspiracy and its Prosecution in Italy, 1500—1550: Violent Responses to Violent Solutions -- chapter 4 Huguenot Conspiracies, Real and Imagined, in Sixteenth-Century France -- chapter 5 Vengeance and Conspiracy during the French Wars of Religion -- chapter 6 'The Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I' Revisited (by its Victims) as a Conspiracy -- chapter 7 The Paranoid Prelate: Archbishop Laud and the Puritan Plot -- chapter 8 The Closest Bond: Conspiracy in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy -- chapter 9 Faults on Both Sides: The Conspiracies of Party Politics under the Later Stuarts -- chapter 10 'Popery at St. James's': The Conspiracy Theses of William Payne, Thomas Hollis, and Lord George Gordon -- chapter 11 Conspiracy and Political Practice from the ancien régime to the French Revolution -- chapter 12 Burke and the Conspiratorial Origins of the French Revolution: Some Anglo-French Resemblances -- chapter 13 'The Tartuffes of Patriotism': Fears of Conspiracy in the Political Language of Revolutionary Government, France 1793-1794 -- chapter 14 The 'Foreign Plot' and the French Revolution: A Reappraisal.