Religion, culture and national community in the 1670s / edited by Tony Claydon and Thomas N. Corns.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-192) and index.

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This fascinating collection of essays illustrates the latest thinking on the crucial decade of the 1670s in Britain. In 1660, after eleven years of republican regimes, the royal restoration attempted to set the political, cultural, and religious clock back to the days of the early Stuarts. By the 1670s, however, this restoration settlement was unraveling, challenged by new ideas of religious toleration, popular sovereignty, and diverse nationality. These essays reflect and analyze such tensions and illustrate the surprising routes by which the modern world began to emerge.

Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction -- Living with masquerade:the recent scholarship of the 1670s in the Stuart realms 1TONY CLAYDON and THOMAS N. CORNS; Paradise postponed: the nationhood of nunsin the 1670s; The Anglo-Scottish union negotiations of 1670; Bunyan's 'certain place': fleeing Esau in the 1670s; Literary innovation and social transformationin the 1670s; 'Great agents for libertinism': Rochester and Milton; 'From the hearts of the people':loyalty, addresses and the public sphere in theexclusion crisis; King Philip's war and the edges of civil religionin 1670s London.

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