God's Fury, England's Fire_ A New History of the English Civil Wars - Michael J. Braddick [442]
11. Margaret Aston, ‘Puritans and Iconoclasm, 1560–1660’, in Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales (eds.), The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560–1700 (Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 92–121; Keith Thomas, ‘Art and Iconoclasm in Early Modern England’, in Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake (eds.), Religious Politics in post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke (Woodbridge, 2006), pp. 16–40; Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection (Basingstoke, 2006), pp. 234–8.
12. Smith, Royal Image, pp. 69–70, 73–5, 79, and for Cromwell, ch. 8. This memorialization of Cromwell goes to the heart of subsequent attempts to make sense of the wars: Blair Worden, Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (Harmondsworth, 2001), ch. 11. For the Act of Oblivion and the erasure of memories of the wars see David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627–1660 (Cambridge, 1999), esp. pp. 1–22; Jonathan Scott, England’s Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Stability in European Context (Cambridge, 2000), esp. intr., ch. 1.
13. This is a large subject, of course. For important recent studies emphasizing the intellectual and cultural creativity of the 1650s see Sean Kelsey, Inventing a Republic: The Political Culture of the English Commonwealth, 1649–1653 (Manchester, 1997); Scott, England’s Troubles, esp. chs. 10–16; Jonathan Scott, Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution (Cambridge, 2004); Norbrook, Writing the English Republic.
14. John Pocock, quoted in J. C. Davis, ‘Political Thought during the English Revolution’, in Barry Coward (ed.), A Companion to Stuart Britain (Oxford, 2003), pp. 374–96, at p. 374.
15. A true and strange relation of fire (London, 1639), p. 8. Butter was a news pioneer, a key figure in the heroic accounts of the rise of the news industry. His output of news pamphlets included a number of stories of natural wonders, some of which made direct connections with current affairs. Prior to 1640, they were mainly foreign events (e.g. Good Newes to Christendome [London, 1620]), but it was not impossible to make a connection between earthquake and fire in the Terceiras (Azores) in 1638 and Charles’s troubles. In 1659 Butter published a pamphlet relating a strange atmospheric phenomenon above London, which coincided with Charles’s departure after the attempt on the Five Members: A Letter with a Narrative, written to the right Hon:ble Thomas Allen (London, 1659).
Bibliography of Secondary Works
I have not included modern editions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century materials except where there is extensive editorial comment upon which I have drawn.
Achinstein, Sharon, ‘The Politics of Babel in the English Revolution’, reprinted in James Holstun (ed.), Pamphlet Wars: Prose in the English Revolution (London, 1992), pp. 14–44.
Achinstein, Sharon, ‘Introduction: Gender, Literature and the English Revolution’, Women’s Studies, 24:1–2 (1994), 1–13.
Achinstein, Sharon, Milton and the Revolutionary Reader (Princeton, 1994).
Achinstein, Sharon, ‘Women on Top in the Pamphlet Literature of the English Revolution’, Women’s Studies, 24: 1–2 (1994), 131–63.
Adamson, J. S. A., ‘The English Nobility and the Projected Settlement of 1647’, HJ, 30 (1987), 567–602.
Adamson, J. S. A., ‘The Baronial Context of the English Civil War’, TRHS, 5th series, 40 (1990), 93–120.
Adamson, J. S. A., ‘Politics and the Nobility in Civil War England’, HJ, 34 (1991), 231–55.
Adamson, J. S. A., ‘Chivalry and Political Culture in Caroline England’, in Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake (eds.), Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England (Basingstoke, 1994), pp. 161–97.
Adamson, J. S. A., ‘Of Armies and Architecture: