This is a fascinating collection of essays illustrating the latest thought on the crucial decade of the 1670s in Britain. This was a period in which it could be argued the modern world began to emerge. These essays reflect and analyse these tensions, illustrating the surprising routes by which ‘modern’ ideas made progress.
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Introduction – Living with masquerade: the recent scholarship of the 1670s in the Stuart realms TONY CLAYDON and THOMAS N. CORNS 1 Paradise postponed: the nationhood of nuns in the 1670s NICKY HALLETT 2 The Anglo-Scottish union proposals of 1670 CLARE JACKSON 3 Bunyan’s ‘certain place’: fleeing Esau in the 1670s BETH LYNCH 4 Literary innovation and social transformation in the 1670s NIGEL SMITH 5 ‘Great agents for libertinism’: Rochester and Milton JAMES GRANTHAM TURNER 6 ‘From the hearts of the people’: loyalty, addresses and the public sphere in the exclusion crisis TED VALLANCE 7 King Philip’s war and the edges of civil religion in 1670s London ELLIOTT VISCONSI
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