Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

This 1998 book describes preaching at the royal courts during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I (1558-1625) and reconstructs the contexts - architectural, religious, political - in which the sermons were preached. Additional web resources provide the reader with a definitive calendar of court sermons for the period.

The aftermath of the Popish Plot and the subsequent succession crisis provide the context for this new study. It challenges the assumption that the unrest was the result of a centrally organized party machine, and explores the wider conflict in the context of public opinion.

This is a study of popular responses to the English Reformation, analysing how ordinary people received, interpreted, debated, and responded to religious change. It differs from other studies by arguing that even at the popular level, political and theological processes were inseparable in the sixteenth century.

Michael Questier's meticulous study examines both the individual and political implications of conversion. By discovering how people were exhorted to change religion, how they experienced conversion, and how they faced demands for Protestant conformity, this book develops a fresh view of the English Reformation.

This book is the first detailed study of Westminster politics in the 1660s for over twenty years, and the first ever in-depth study of the legislation of the 1660s. Dr Seaward shows how these drastic and dramatic events had changed perceptions and attitudes in British politics.

King Charles I twice mobilised England in an attempt to enforce religious uniformity in Scotland, and both times he failed. The Bishops' Wars is military history in a political context. The book explains why the King could not reduce Scotland by force and concludes that the responsibility for defeat was his.