Synopses & Reviews
Review
"...is a model of scrupulous scholarship, which sets a high standard to imitate for those who seek in future to apply similar techniques to other counties in order to interpret popular attitudes to the rival parties in the English Civil War." --
War in History 6 (2) 1999
War in History
Synopsis
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of 1642-46, but that they divided instead along regional lines, certain areas supporting Parliament, others supporting the King. The second is that this general rule applied to cities too, and that in urban communities it is possible to discern both 'Royalist' and 'Parliamentarian' parishes. The third is that these internal divisions were not simply temporary alignments, conjured up by extraordinary circumstances, but that they reflected deep and enduring splits in local society, contrasting patterns of popular behaviour stretching back over very many years.
Synopsis
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War.
Synopsis
This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice.
About the Author
Mark Stoyle is professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton.