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England in the 1670s: This Masquerading Age

ISBN: 978-0-631-22253-8

September 2000

Wiley-Blackwell

372 pages

Description
England in the 1670s provides a welcome introduction to the politics, war and religion of this tumultuous period in English history and paints a revealing and vibrant portrait of a society grappling with change.
About the Author
John Spurr is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Wales Swansea. He is the author of The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689 (1991) and English Puritanism, 1603-1689 (1998).
Features
  • Challenges previous assumptions about the 1670s.
  • Based on and quotes a wide range of manuscripts, newsletters, correspondence, contemporary diaries, poems, plays and other documents and printed works.
  • Includes literary sources not only to enrich the coverage of the period, but for interdisciplinary approach to the period.