The Lord Protector

Religion and Politics in the Life of Oliver Cromwell
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9679-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 438 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

A biography of Cromwell, charting his political and military career, and the religious debates that influenced his actions.

Oliver Cromwell stands at the gateway of modern history; his resolute Puritanism formative to concepts of political and religious liberty, the development of democracy, and the individual's duty to resist tyranny. In The Lord Protector, Robert S. Paul traces Cromwell's political career, from his early influences and political experience, to the English Civil Wars, his brutal conquest of Ireland and campaigns in Scotland.
Where some historians present Cromwell in extremes, either as a scheming power-hungry tyrant, or as a noble hero, Paul seeks to understand the Lord Protector through the religious context of the seventeenth century, removed from the typical historical readings of his contemporaries. In order to understand Cromwell's career, Paul's investigation focusses his study through the extent to which Cromwell shared the theological beliefs common to his time. This relationship between his religion and political action provides an estimate of Cromwell as a man of faith, statesman and ruler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paul, Robert S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Soziallehre und Sozialethik, Pastoral und Seelsorge
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
1. Formative Influences
2. Early Political Experience
3. From the Beginning of the Civil War to the Spring of 1644
4. The Civil War: Spring 1644 to the Self-Denying Ordinance
5. The Civil War: Spring 1645 to the End of the First Civil War
6. From the Fall of Oxford to the Army Debates, July 1647
7. The Army Debates of 1647
8. Carisbrooke to the Outbreak of the Second Civil War
9. The Second Civil War
10. The Execution of the King
11. The Beginnings of the Commonwealth Military and Political Problems
12. The Irish Campaign and Its Moral Issues
13. The Scottish Campaign: Dunbar
14. The Scottish Campaign: Worcester
15. From Worcester to the Expulsion of the Rump
16. Experiments at Home and Abroad
17. Princeps: The Constitution and the Major-Generals
18. Princeps: Home and Foreign Policy
19. The Kingship and the End
20. Judgement
Appendices
1. Letter to Mr. Storie, January II, 1635/6
2. Biblical Analysis of Cromwell's Letter to Mrs. St. John, October 23, 1638
3. Extract from "Vindiciae Veritatis"
4. Letter to Robert Hammond, November 6, 1648
5. Letter to Robert Hammond, November 25, 1648
6. The "Saddle Letter" Account
7. Selected Letters
8. Professor W.C. Abbott and Oliver Cromwell
Select Bibliography
Index