EMH EarlyModernHistory

  Orr on Milton, 'England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England, 1625-1662' Author:  Anthony Milton Reviewer:  D. Alan Orr Anthony Milton. England's Second Reformation: The Battle for the Church of England, 1625-1662. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 450 pp. (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-16475-7; $44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-19645-2. Reviewed by D. Alan Orr (Maryland Institute College of Art) Published on H-Albion (June, 2022) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57308 There is a long-standing tendency in scholarship on English religion during the mid-seventeenth century to interpret developments in teleological terms. Many scholars, mostly sympathetic to the established Church of England and its perceived plight ...

The  final seminar of this term and academic year will be taking place   in-person  at Lambeth Palace Library, in collaboration with the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, on   Tuesday 20 June at 5pm (BST) . The seminar paper is a roundtable entitled   On Laudianism , featuring Professor Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) discussing his forthcoming book   Piety, Polemic and Politics during the Personal Rule of Charles I , alongside Professor Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Professor Anthony Milton (Sheffield), followed by a general discussion. A copy of the abstract for the roundtable can be found here: 'Peter Lake, Professor of History at Vanderbilt, is one of the most distinguished writers on English religion after the Reformation. Later this year Cambridge University Press will publish Peter's latest book,  Piety, Polemic and Politics during the Personal Rule of Charles I . The central argument is that ecclesiastical politics under Charles I and Archbishop Lau...

  The Career and Character of Sir Edwin Sandys One of the recurrent themes in the historiography of the early colonial settlement of Virginia has been the character and career of Sir Edwin Sandys, the Treasurer of the Virginia Company of London in 1619-1620 and a major figure in its activities until its dissolution in 1624. He was viewed, for example, by Wesley Frank Craven in 1932 as “best known for his leadership of the opposition to the crown in the house of commons, which he first entered in 1586” and his opposition to King James after 1603 “won him the thorough dislike of his sovereign.” Much more recently, Sandys has been described as “a relentless critic of the king’s political agenda and leader of the opposition in the House of Commons. He was involved in all the major confrontations with James and his ministers over the next twenty years [after 1603] .... and within a few years, he emerged as one of the major spokesmen of the country’s independent gentry by championing the...

  Giving Oliver Cromwell his voice back: a collaborative project in the digital age   Professor John Morrill (Cambridge) Monday 10 th  July, 1.15 – 4.00pm BST   This event is in-person with tea and coffee from 12.45. There is no need to register.   We are pleased to announce that John Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of History at Durham) will be giving a talk entitled ‘ Giving Oliver Cromwell his voice back: a collaborative project in the digital age ’ on Monday 10 July 2023 at 1.15 pm in 7 Owengate, Durham, DH1 3HB.   The ensuing discussion will be opened by Professor Tim Harris (Brown University), who will talk about the ways in which Professor Morrill’s new edition of Cromwell’s writings, published earlier this year by Oxford University Press, has changed his view of Cromwell and the revolutionary era in British and Irish history.   All are welcome. The talk should be of interest not only to early mode...