Reading and Politics in Early Modern England: The Mental World of a Seventeenth-century Catholic Gentleman (Politics, culture & society in early modern Britain)

by Geoff Baker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $90.75

  This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society. -- .