Reading and politics in early modern England : the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman /
"This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. This is an important study that will be of interest to all who work on the early modern period. The e...
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Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | Manchester ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2010. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
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"This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. This is an important study that will be of interest to all who work on the early modern period. The examination of Blundell's political and cultural worlds complicates generalisations about early modern religious identities and challenges a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early modern society."--BOOK JACKET. |
Carrier Form: | xiii, 236 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780719091247 (paperback) : 0719091241 (paperback) 9780719080241 (hardback) 071908024X (hardback) |
Index Number: | PR421 |
CLC: | K561.42 |
Call Number: | K561.42/B167 |
Contents: | Pt. 1, Family, friends and connections. William Blundell's family and friends ; William Blundell and the wider world -- Pt. 2, Reading and reflections. Reading and the construction of commonplaces ; Reading the confessional divide ; A Catholic approach to the world. |