Faction And Faith: Politics and Religion of the Cornish Gentry before the Civil War [Hardcover]

The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. InFaction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with a detailed analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the established view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically-aware and religiously-splintered society.Faction and Faith, the first major publication since 1933 on this period in Cornwall, challenges the established view of Cornish society in the early seventeenth century through the extensive use of new source materials from national and local records.

 
Market: Scholars of early seventeenth century history, academic and local libraries, postgraduate and undergraduate students of history, all those with an interest in Cornish and Civil War history.

Preface

Chapter 1: Cornwall and the Cornish Gentry

Chapter 2: The Religious Landscape: Papists, Puritans and Arminians

Chapter 3: The Political Landscape: Harmony and Faction 1600-1638

Chapter 4: Local Government and Defence 1600-1638

Chapter 5: The Impact of Arbitrary Taxation

Chapter 6: The Approach of War

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

“This is a book which will be valued by historians of this period and by those with a particular interest in Cornwall.” –Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries,Autumn 1997

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