The Devil's Book: Charles I, The Book of Sports and Puritanism in Tudor and Early Stuart England - Couverture rigide

Dougall, Alistair

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859898563 ISBN 13 : 9780859898560

Editeur : University of Exeter Press, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Book of Sports was the royal declaration which sanctioned popular participation in traditional pastimes after church attendance on Sunday. It was denounced by a vociferous opposition who viewed recreation on the Sabbath as the devils work. Alistair Dougall takes a fresh look at the events surrounding the re-publication of the Book of Sports in 1633 and reassesses the role of Charles I himself in the controversy. He re-examines the cultural battle that emerged as a result of the tension between Sunday observance and traditional revelry and demonstrates how a new form of sabbatarianism became the hallmark of the radical Protestants who sought to suppress all Sunday recreations. The book also makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate surrounding the causes of division in English society which led to the outbreak of civil war in 1642.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Alistair Dougall taught for four years at Southampton University before joining the Godolphin School in Salisbury, where he is Head of Sixth Form and teaches History, specialising in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English and European History.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0859898563
• ISBN 13: 9780859898560
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248