The English Civil War : a people's history by Purkiss, Diane, 1961-

The Tragedy of Regicide in Interregnum and Restoration Histories of the English Civil Wars by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille

“…This article explores the generic proximity between history and drama in the Interregnum and Restoration histories of the English civil wars. It first looks at the way historians – whether on the king’s or on the Parliament’s side – appropriated the ingredients of tragedy in order to structure their narratives of the regicide and characterize their protagonists. …”
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Puritan Lecturers and Anglican Clergymen during the Early Years of the English Civil Wars by Youngkwon Chung

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Tolerance or a War on Shadows: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the English Civil War, and the kaleidoscopic early modern frontier by Tadd Graham Fernée

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Civil War, Trade and Kinship: the Experiences of Some West Country Clothiers by Hugh Chevis

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Lucy Hutchinson and Margaret Cavendish: Civil War and Enemy Commiseration by Yousef Deikna

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Turncoat poets of the English Revolution by Allsopp, N

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L’Engagement des Niveleuses et la presse anglaise contemporaine (1649) by Laurent Curelly

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Every Turn of the Wheel: Circular Time and Cordelia’s Revolt: from William Shakespeare to the British Enlightenment by Tadd Graham Fernée

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English Catholic literary culture, 1640-1660 by Archibald, C

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‘THE CURE OF THE KINGDOME’: DEFENDING FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN ELIZABETH POOLE’S A VISION (1648) by Carme Font Paz

“…A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) is Elizabeth Poole’s account of the prophecies she delivered before Cromwell and the Puritan Army’s General Council as they debated the regicide of Charles I at the end of the first English Civil War in 1648-49. In her “message”, Poole invokes the analogy between king and husband to advise the Army officers not to execute the “head” of their “body”; however, she gives this analogy a radical twist when she adds that the Council should divorce the king instead, since he had violated the terms of his “marriage” by behaving abusively and tyrannically. …”
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Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on education by Bejan, T

“…It begins with Hobbes's diagnosis of the English Civil War as the product of the miseducation of the commonwealth and shows that education was a central and consistent concern of his political theory from an early stage. …”

Revolution and the whip of reaction: technicians of power and the dialectic of radicalisation by Mulholland, M

“…The thesis is illustrated here by a narrative of revolution in Europe from the English Civil War to the Liberation of the 1940s, with a coda on ’68.…”

Dans le regard de l’Autre : la France et les Français vus d’Angleterre, 1640-1660 by Charles GIRY-DELOISON

“…In mid-XVIIth Century England, the unparalleled rise of the press and the near concomitance of the English Civil War and the French Fronde, incited the English to look at and observe France and the French. …”
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Spinoza in His Time: The 17th-Century Religious Context by Joke Spaans

“…However, he also seems apprehensive about the possibility of the return of chaos, such as during the Arminian Controversies in the Dutch Republic in the 1610s and the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s. The so-called Wolzogen affair in 1668 probably rattled him. …”
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Shakespeare and Hobbes by Nicholas Dungey

“…Thomas Hobbes sought a reconstruction of philosophy, ethics, and politics that would end, once and for all, the bitter disputes that led to the English Civil War. This reconstruction begins with the first principles of matter and motion and extends to a unique account of moral consent and political obligation. …”
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‘Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm’d’: Polemics and the Justification of Infant Baptism in the Early Restoration by Warren Jonathan

“…The English Civil War brought an end to government censorship of nonconformist texts. …”
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A biography of Archbishop Richard Neile (1562-1640) by Foster, A

“…The implementation of Arminian policies at Winchester and after his final appointment as Archbishop of York was one of the major causes of the English Civil War.</p>…”

A theory-informed framework for designing software to support reasoning about causation in history by Masterman, L, Sharples, M

“…An initial software prototype, in which the computer assumes the latter role only, has been developed and successfully evaluated with pupils studying the causes of the English Civil War. Design of a second prototype, in which the computer is more actively engaged in the conversation, is currently in progress. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.…”

Religion as a Means of Political Conformity and Obedience: From Critias to Thomas Hobbes by Michail Theodosiadis, Elias Vavouras

“…A few centuries later, Hobbes (influenced by the misery of the English Civil War) developed viewpoints that also highlight the role of religion in defending social peace. …”
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