Of Labels and Situations: Revisionisms and Early Stuart Studies

The “Revisionist” controversy grew from England's frayed postwar consensus. Historians had sought socioeconomic causes of the civil war, but Conrad Russell brilliantly asserted the political and the short term. What then of underlying pressures? “Revisionism” soon fractured amid implausible ass...

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Published in:The Huntington Library quarterly 2015-12, Vol.78 (4), p.595-614
Main Author: Hirst, Derek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
British culture
Civil war
Civil wars
Historical revisionism
Irish politics
Marxian economics
Parliaments
Political history
Political revolutions
Politics
Religion
Religious wars
Revisionism
Socioeconomic factors
Teleology
War
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Summary:The “Revisionist” controversy grew from England's frayed postwar consensus. Historians had sought socioeconomic causes of the civil war, but Conrad Russell brilliantly asserted the political and the short term. What then of underlying pressures? “Revisionism” soon fractured amid implausible assertions of consensus, but while Russell attributed disruption to England's neighbors, others explored the exuberance of England's “political culture,” or stressed the Reformation century's religious passions. But was England's civil war a “war of religion”? Such claims attend neither to England's political assumptions, nor to the nature of violence or human motivation, nor to the role of language.
ISSN:0018-7895
1544-399X
1544-399X
DOI:10.1353/hlq.2015.0019