From Deliverance To Destruction: Rebellion and Civil War in an English City (Exeter Studies in History) - Softcover

Stoyle, Mark Prof.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0859894789 ISBN 13: 9780859894784

Publisher: University of Exeter Press, 1996

Synopsis

This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents.

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Review:

"Dr Stoyle's account deserves to become the standard authority. He ranges widely in the sources to describe and explain the circumstances by which parliamentary authority was ousted and replaced by Royalist administration until the final siege of Exeter in 1646. He explores the tensions between the commands of Berkeley and Goring on the Royalist side, and convincingly analyses conflicts between military and civic authority." Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 1998 "Dr Stoyle is to be congratulated on a book which is highly readable and widely accessible, which presents a lively and engaging account, but which also makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the urban sector before and during the civil war." Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997 "This is of more than local interest, since Exeter offers something of a case study, challenging the view that in provincial urban communities little concern was shown there for national issues until citizens were faced by the mind-concentrating demands posed by war in the kingdom ... Similar searching reinspection of other urban centres is called for." Cromwelliana

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This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The book shows how Exeter's inhabitants first began to dissent from each other over religious issues, then became divided into two warring camps, and finally - after three years of bitter conflict - witnessed much of the ancient city being destroyed. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of documents from original seventeenth-century sources. These have been specially selected to illuminate the war's effect on ordinary men and women, and to show how closely engaged they were with the national politico-religious debate. This book will be of interest to all serious students of the English Civil War, while at the same time being easily accessible a non-specialist audience.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0859894789
• ISBN 13: 9780859894784
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250