Covenanting Citizens
Subtitle: The Protestation Oath and Popular Political Culture in the English Revolution
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199605590
Subjects: Great britain, history, civil war, 1642-1649
Description: A new take on the origins of the English Civil War and English Revolution, offering a study of the protestation, the first state oath to be issued under parliamentary authority swearing loyalty to king and country, but with the radical outcome of offering a political voice to those hitherto excluded by class, age or gender.