Covenanting Citizens: The Protestation Oath and Popular Political Culture in the English Revolution

by John A. Walter

Covenanting Citizens throws new light on the origins of the English civil war and on the radical nature of the English Revolution. An exercise in writing the 'new political history', the volume challenges the discrete categories of high and popular politics and the presumed boundaries between national and local history. It offers the first full study of the Protestation, the first state oath to be issued under parliamentary authority. The politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199605599
• ISBN13: 9780199605590
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"