England in conflict, 1603-1660 - Derek Hirst

Derek Hirst has drawn on the research of more than a decade of challenging scholarship that has appeared since his 'Authority and Conflict', (from which this book is descended), to produce a wholly fresh work. Centred around ambiguities of community in early modern England - the community of the realm embodied in the king, the local communities with all their strengths and subversions, the political community as an autonomous agent - enlivens the debates over revisionism, Puritanism and the Church, and witchcraft while at the same time making sense of the complexities of crisis and continuity.