6. Oliver Cromwell and the Instrument of Government

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Contributors x
5. List of Abbreviations xi
6. 1. Charles I and Public Opinion on the Eve of the English Civil War 1
7. 2. Rethinking Moderation in the English Revolution: The Case of An Apologeticall Narration 27
8. 3. The Parish and the Poor in the English Revolution 53
9. 4. Body Politics in the English Revolution 81
10. 5. The Franchise Debate Revisited: The Levellers and the Army 103
11. 6. Oliver Cromwell and the Instrument of Government 123
12. 7. ‘de te Fabula narratur’: The Narrative Constitutionalism of James 151 Harrington’s Oceana 151
13. 8. Democracy in 1659: Harrington and the Good Old Cause 175
14. 9. The Restoration of the Church of England, 1660–1662: Ordination, Re-ordination and Conformity 197
15. 10. Style, Wit and Religion in Restoration England 233
16. 11. A British Patriarchy? Ecclesiastical Imperialism under the Later Stuarts 261
17. Index 285