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A Confusion of Tongues
Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642
Charles W. A. Prior
266 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-969825-7
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Hardback
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02 February 2012
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- Offers a fresh perspective on a much-debated topic in early modern British history
- Integrates politics and religion, demonstrating the constitutional nature of the English civil war
- Bridges a gap between political and religious interpretations of the English civil war
- Based on a careful reconstruction of contemporary debates, in an understudied body of pamphlets and longer texts
- Demonstrates the historical character of political and religious thought
A Confusion of Tongues examines the complex interaction of religion, history, and law in the period before the outbreak of the wars of the Three Kingdoms. It questions interpretations of that conflict that emphasise either the purely doctrinal roots of religious tension, or the processes by which the law gained primacy over the Church, in what amounted to a secular revolution. Instead, religion took its place among a range of constitutional issues that undermined the authority of Charles I in both England and Scotland.
Charles Prior offers a careful reconstruction of a number of printed debates on the nature of the
relationship of church and realm: the introduction of altars into the Church of England; the Scottish National Covenant; and the legal consequences of the assertion of clerical power in a system of ecclesiastical courts. He reveals that these debates were concerned with the ambiguities of the relationship of civil and ecclesiastical power that were contained in the statutes that carved out the Church 'by law established'. Instead of being clearly separated as part of an 'Erastian' Reformation, religion and law were bound together in complex ways, and debates on the relationship of church and realm emerged as a vital conduit of political and constitutional thought. A Confusion of Tongues offers a synthetic and nuanced portrait of the politics of religion, and recovers the texture of
contemporary debate at a vital point in early modern British history.Readership: Academics and students of history, religion, politics, historiography, law, and political thought
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Charles W. A. Prior, Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Hull Charles W. A. Prior is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is editor of England's Wars of Religion, Revisited (2011), and author of Defining the Jacobean Church: The Politics of Religious Controversy, 1603-1625 (2005).
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"Highly recommended." - CHOICE "concise and elegant." - Dr Mark Williams, Reviews in History "This is a challenging book, which eschews firm or clear conclusions but which invites the reader to experience the complexity of early Stuart debates. Readers will need to decide for themselves the significance of these debates, and may want to explore further their relationship to the broader history of the period. But Prior has drawn our attention to the confusion of the period in interesting ways, which will enrich future scholarship." - H-Net Reviews
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1: Introduction: The State of the Church
2: Church and Realm: The Politics of Religion
3: Inner Temples: History, Ritual, and Law, 1630-1637
4: Caroline Covenants: Scotland, 1636-1640
5: 'Bodies, Soules, and Estates': Liberty and the Canons of 1640
6: Bishops, Parliament, and Reform: 1641
7: Thomas Aston and the Ancient Constitution of the Church
8: Henry Parker: Priestcraft, Custom, and Sovereignty
9: Conclusion: Wars of Reformation
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