Reading and politics in early modern England
Subtitle: the mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman
By: Geoff Baker
Series: Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780719080241
Subjects: Politics and government; Catholics; History
Description: "This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. This is an important study that will be of interest to all who work on the early modern period. The examination of Blundell's political and cultural worlds complicates generalisations about early modern religious identities and challenges a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early modern society."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.