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Healing the nation : royalist visionaries, Cromwell, and the restoration of Charles II
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Capp, Bernard (2019) Healing the nation : royalist visionaries, Cromwell, and the restoration of Charles II. The Seventeenth Century, 34 (4). pp. 493-512. doi:10.1080/0268117X.2018.1462246 ISSN 0268-117X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2018.1462246
Abstract
The radical visionaries of the civil war era had several royalist counterparts, today often overlooked. This article examines the three most significant: John Sanders of Harborne, Walter Gostelo, and Arise Evans. God, they claimed, had directed them to press Cromwell to restore Charles II, perhaps through a marriage alliance. This alone could settle the nation, and it would usher in a millennial age of peace. Sanders combined support for the crown and Church with a remarkable call for the nailers of Birmingham to strike against their oppressive employers. His family responded to his visionary mission with deep hostility. Evans attracted far greater public interest; he and Gostelo were able to present their ideas to Cromwell in person, and Gostelo travelled to the exiled royal court. The visionaries’ message, if ultimately unacceptable, spoke to the concerns of many contemporaries anxious and uncertain about the future.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658, Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685, Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649, Millennialism, Visions, Royalists | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Seventeenth Century | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0268-117X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 493-512 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0268117X.2018.1462246 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Seventeenth Century on 12/06/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0268117X.2018.1462246 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 December 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 December 2019 |
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