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Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule

Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule

Reeve, L. J.
Fletcher, Anthony
L. J., Reeve

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

General European HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 0521521335
ISBN13: 9780521521338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 30 2003
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study of the character and policies of Charles I provides an analysis of the political crisis leading to his personal rule in England during the years before the civil wars. It fills a gap in the historical literature of the period by integrating ideological with political developments and English with international affairs. It is also a contribution to the wider European history of a critical phase of the Thirty Years War. The book offers a new way of understanding Charles by demonstrating how ill-suited his personality was to the workings of the political world. It also argues that Charles's innovatory rule created a new pattern of national politics deeply destructive in its effects. The book gives a gripping account of the king's willingness to pervert the due process of law in dealing with his political opponents, as well as investigating his failures in religious and foreign policy.

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