Clarendon
Politics, History and Religion 1640–1660

This celebrated study offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde.

Brian Harvey Goodwin Wormald (Author), Hugh Kearney (Foreword by)

9780521379533, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 July 1989

372 pages
21.6 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm, 0.47 kg

'Studies of the Royalist party have for the past thirty years built upon Brian Wormald's brilliant analysis …' John Morrill, Reactions to the English Civil War (1982)

This celebrated study, first published in 1951, offers a reinterpretation of the writings and attitudes of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609–74), best known for his History of the Rebellion and the Civil War and his autobiography, which presents an excellent record of the English Civil War. Mr Wormald reconstructs the attitudes of this controversial figure towards the earth shaking events of the war and what made him change his ideas. His answers reverse the traditional view, espoused by S. R. Gardiner, of Hyde's thought.

Foreword Hugh Keaney
Preface
Part I. Politics: 1. From the opening of the second session of the long parliament to the attempt on the five members
2. From the attempt of the five members to the arrival of the King at York
3. From the arrival of the King at York to the nineteenth propositions
4. From the nineteenth propositions to the end of the First Civil War
Part II. Historiography: 5. The psalms and Machiavelli
6. Historical politics
Part III. Religion: 7. The tew circle
8. Historical religion
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], British & Irish history [HBJD1]