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Contents

    Actaeon and Diana501
    ‘Ahivah’
      prophetic utterances475
    Ancient and true prophesie of all those transactions that have already happened, An474–5
    Anglo-Dutch War (First)
      Marvell’s satire646
    Anglo-Dutch War (Second)
    Annus mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666618–21
    apothecaries
      James I’s proclamation as to525
    Astraea redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of His Sacred Majesty Charles the Second615
    authorship
      rise of professional177
    Baxter, Richard
      and church reform106
    Beckett, J C
      on Ireland and Civil War45
    Bishops’ Wars
    Blake, William
      and Abiezer Coppe349
    blindness
      as divine retribution118
    Bunyan, John
      conversion narrative429
      Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners690–4
      Robert White’s portrait of695
    Butler, Samuel
      and divine inspiration651
      and literary authority652
      satirical appropriation651
    Cary, Mary
      prophetic writings467
    Case of the Common-wealth of England, Stated, The5–6, 380–4
    Case, Thomas
      sermon on Battle of Edgehill12–13
    Castlemaine, Barbara Palmer, Countess of
      Marvell’s satire647
    Cavendish, Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle
      early life and evolution of thought657–9
      importance of scientific thought656–7
      and plenum (material fullness) of Nature663–5
    Charles II; See also Restoration
      Declaration of Breda615
      equestrian statue of, Marvell’s satire of648
      portrait by William Dobson1–3, 2
      post-Restoration martial portraiture18
      restoration as fulfilment of prophecy475
    Cicero
      Milton’s references to14
    classical literature
    Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby
      recipe for ‘Pressi nourissant’ (meat broth)528–9
    Company of Stationers
      regulation of printing191
    conversion narratives
      maturation through persecution and personal struggle438
      predestination and conversion experience429–32
    copyright
    Cox, Robert
      Actaeon and Diana501
    Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, The (drama)507–11
    Culpeper, Nicholas
      English translation of Pharmacopoea Londinensis (London Dispensatory)518, 525–6
    Davenant, William
      The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru507–11
      First Day’s Entertainment, The504–5
      The History of Sir Francis Drake509–10
      and John Dryden511
    Davies, Lady Eleanor
      prophetic writings466
    Declaration of Breda
      promulgation615
    Defensio regia pro Carolo I446
    Den Afgrysselikken start-Man (The Horrible Tail-Man) (satirical print)34
    Denham, Sir John
      political perspectives in Coopers Hill209–15
    Dewsbury, William
      A true prophecie of the mighty day of the Lord473
    Dobson, William
      portrait of Charles II1–3, 2
    Dryden, John
      Annus mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666618–21
      and divine inspiration651
      To His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation617–18
      The Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham649
      and literary authority652
      satirical appropriation651
      and William Davenant511
    Dugard, William
      and publishing of Defensio regia pro Carolo I446
      and publishing of Eikon Basilike289–90
    Edgehill, Battle of
      Bulstrode Whitelocke’s diary244
      death of Sir Edmund Verney242
      inconclusive result of1–3
      literary responses to2–3
      politicization of literary accounts of8–10
      propaganda and public opinion after11–13
    Elegy upon the Death of my Lord Francis Villiers, An259, 261–3
    Eliot, T S
    English Revolution
      and British cultural development30–1
      chronological scope of study4
      contemporary understandings of ‘revolution’4–7
      description of contents of Handbook15–18
      meaning of ‘literature of the English Revolution’4–7
      politicization of literary genres10
      expanded view of literature of3–4
      scope and types of revolutionary literature7–10
    Enlightenment
      satire and dawn of653
    Ermordete Majestät oder Carolus Stuardus34–6
    Europe
      appeals to public opinion in54
    Fallon, Stephen
      Milton among the Philosophers127
    Feake, Christopher472
    Fifth Monarchism
    Filmer, Sir Robert
      rebuttal of Milton’s Defensio452
    Fire of London
    First Anglo-Dutch War
      Marvell’s satire646
    First Day’s Entertainment, The (drama)504–5
    Flecknoe, Richard
    freedom of conscience
      religion and105
    ‘freedom of the press’ See printing
    Galileo
    Gauden, Dr John, Bishop of Exeter
    Germany
      responses to English Revolution34–6
    Glisson, Francis
    ‘godly republicans’
      critique of James Harrington543–4
    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners690–4
    Great Plague and Fire of London
    Gryphius, Andreas
    Habermas, Jürgen
      theory of public sphere174
    Halkett, Anne Murray, Lady
      Civil War memoir159
    Hall, John
      on death of Francis Villiers263
    Harley, Lady Brilliana
    Harvey, William
      discovery of circulation of blood126
    Hazzard, Dorothy
      local church leadership162
    Hill, Christopher
      influence on English Revolution scholarship7
      on medical theory in 17th century123
    History of Sir Francis Drake, The (drama)
    Howard, Aletheia Talbot
    Italy
      responses to English Revolution39–40
    James I
      proclamation as to apothecaries525
      Reformed Protestantism100
    Johnson, Samuel
      on Revolution as ‘The Age of Pamphlets135
    Jones, Samson
      Vox infantis465
    Kind Keeper, or Mr. Limberham, The649
    Kirke, Mary
      identity as ‘matchless Chlora262
    Last Instructions to a Painter34
    Lely, Peter
      post-Restoration portraiture18
    Leti, Gregorio
      history of English Civil War39
    Levellers
    Lilburne, John
      and Milton’s Defensio452
    literary authority
    local politicians
    magistrates
      role in church reform103
    manhood
    Manifestarian controversy
    Marprelate tracts
      production of175
    Marshall, William
      frontispiece portrait of Charles I in Eikon Basilike297–8, 297
    Marston Moor, Battle of
      size of armies154
    mathematics
    medicine
      James I’s proclamation as to apothecaries525
    metaphysical poetry
    Montagu, Walter [probable author]
    Morrice, Roger
      and publishing of Eikon Basilike294–5
    Morrill, John
      ’Three Kingdoms’ narrative of English Revolution47
    Mucedorus (play)
      deaths at performance of499
    Muggleton, Lodowick
    Naseby, Battle of
      massacre of royalist women156
    Neville, Henry
    ‘New British History’
      new methodologies59
      ’Three Kingdoms’ narrative of English Revolution45–7
    New Non-Conformist, The472
    Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels316–17
    On The Principles of the Christian Religion682–3
    Ormond, Earl of
    Oudaen, Joachim
      responses to English Revolution32
    Overton, Richard
    Paduan method of study
      medical theory and126
    Palmer, Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine
      Marvell’s satire647
    pamphlet dramas
      as political opposition to Protectorate501–3
    Parsons, Sir William
      and Irish Rebellion52
    Paul, St
      conversion narrative426
    Pharmacopoea Londinensis (London Dispensatory)
    Pickering, Sir Gilbert
    Pilgrim’s Progress, The
    Plague of London
    plenism
    plenum (material fullness) of Nature
    Plutarch
      Milton’s references to10
    Pocock, J G A
      ‘New British History’45–6
    political perspectives
    political structure
      English Revolution and development of29
    politicization of literature
      accounts of Battle of Edgehill8–10
      classical literature10
    Poole, Elizabeth
      prophetic utterances163
    portraiture
      Charles I at prayer (Eikon Basilike frontispiece)297
      Charles II at Edgehill1–3, 2
      John Lilburne276
      post-Restoration royal portraiture18
      Queen Henrietta Maria521
    prose romance
    public sphere
      Habermas’s theory of174
    Puritans
      continuing influence post-Restoration113
      influence in Parliament99
      influence on Revolution99, 102
      Presbyterianism104
      ’puritanization’ in the colonies71–3
      and religious radicalism108
    Pym, John
      and Protestation of 1641101
    Quakers
      Manifestarian controversy573
      print and political participation574–81
      prophecy and political expression472–5
      published accounts of persecutions576–7
      religious radicalism111
    Queens Closet Opened, The
      nostalgic viewpoint519
      title page and frontispiece521
    Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell
    Remonstrance of Grievances52
    republicanism
      and religious radicalism111
    rovting of the Ranters, The359
    Rowe, John
      sermon on evils of theatre499
    Royalists
      accounts of Battle of Edgehill9
      theatre as political opposition to Protectorate498–512
    Royston, Richard
      and publishing of Eikon Basilike289–90
    Sallust
    Saumaise, Claude de (Salmasius)
      Defensio regia pro Carolo I446
    sculpture
      Marvell’s satire of equestrian statues of Charles I and II648
    Second Anglo-Dutch War
    Sexby, Edward
      mission to France38
    Sidney, Philip
      Arcadia and origins of prose romance554–5
    Siege of Rhodes, The (drama)505–7
    Socinians
      religious radicalism111
    Solemn League and Covenant
      swearing of52
    Solemn League and Covenant, A (print)56
    sonnets
      Milton’s politicization of genre9–11
    Spain
      responses to English Revolution31
    Spalding, John
      account of Battle of Edgehill12
    Spinoza, Baruch
      Hobbes’ influence on37
    Sprat, Thomas
      poem in praise of Oliver Cromwell614
    Star Chamber
      Milton’s criticism of198
      regulation of printing by523
      transfer of censorship powers to Parliament525
    Strafford, ThomasWentworth, Earl of
    Strydt tusschen de Doodt en Natuur34–6
    Sydenham, Sir Edward
    Symmons, Edward
    taxation
    Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The310–16
    Thomas Edwards
    ’Three Kingdoms’ narrative of English Revolution See Civil War
    To His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyric On His Coronation617–18
    Totney, Thomas
      religious radicalism111
    trade
      control of colonial trade73–4
    Tragi-comedy, called Newmarket Fair, A502
    true narrative of the examination, tryall, and sufferings of James Nayler, A473–4
    true prophecie of the mighty day of the Lord, A473
    Varenne, François Pierre de la
    Verney family
      Sir Edmund’s death at Edgehill242
    Vondel, Joost van den
      responses to English Revolution31–2
    Vos, Jan
      Strydt tusschen de Doodt en Natuur34–6
    Vox infantis465
    Waller, Edmund
      elegy to Oliver Cromwell614
    Waller, Lady Anne
      as epitome of Puritan womanhood158
    Westminster Assembly
    Whitehead, John
      dispute with Manifestarian Quakers573
    White, Robert
      portrait of John Bunyan695
    Wildman, John
    Wren, Matthew
      critique of James Harrington542–3
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