Books in the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series

This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that immense difficulties forced them to make administrative innovations which contradicted their original policy.

King Charles I twice mobilised England in an attempt to enforce religious uniformity in Scotland, and both times he failed. The Bishops' Wars is military history in a political context. The book explains why the King could not reduce Scotland by force and concludes that the responsibility for defeat was his.

This book explores the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and recovers their hidden social meanings. It also examines the crimes of witchcraft, coining and murder, in order to reveal new and important insights into how the thinking of ordinary people was transformed between 1550 and 1750.

This book looks at the last years of Henry VIII's life, 1539-47, conventionally seen as a time when the king persecuted Protestants. The book argues that Henry's policies were much more ambiguous, and that it was during these years that English Protestantism's eventual identity was determined.

Previous studies of historical writing during the early modern period have focused on authors and on their style or methodology. This work - based on a vast range of published and archival material - examines the social forces which controlled what was written, and the impact upon authors of readers and publishers.

This study of English forests and hunting from the late sixteenth century to the early 1640s explores their significance in the symbolism and effective power of royalty and nobility in early modern England. Dan Beaver examines how local politics became bound up with national political and ideological divisions.

This is the first comprehensive account of the development of the ideas on gender of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) among his English followers. It deals with English Behmenism from its reception during the Interregnum through to its impact upon William Blake and the Swedenborgians in the eighteenth century.

This is the first full study in fifty years of the author of the most celebrated political tract of the early years of the English Civil War. Parker's literary work is viewed in the light of his career as privado, or intimate adviser, to leading figures of the parliamentary leadership.

Examining aspects of law, history, art, drama and literature, this is an interesting interpretation of a hidden culture: the arcane world of the early modern legal community, its attempts to restrict governmental power during the period 1558 to 1660, and its aim to represent the order of an ideal commonwealth.

This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England, based on extensive research in every borough archive and in the records of the court of King's Bench.