Westminster 1640–60: A Royal City in a Time of Revolution

Westminster 1640–60: A royal city in a time of revolution
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Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The eye of the storm? Westminster, 1640–42
	BEFORE AND AFTER THE SHORT PARLIAMENT
	THE LONG PARLIAMENT
	‘THE PERSECUTION IS SO FEARFULY CRUEL AND HOT’: ROMAN CATHOLICS IN WESTMINSTER
	RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND RADICALISM
	PUBLIC ORDER, THE TRAINED BANDS AND THE ‘DECEMBER DAYS’
	THE AFTERMATH OF THE KING’S DEPARTURE
	CONCLUSION
Chapter 2: ‘The perpetual marching of troops, the ceaseless noise of drums and trumpets’: the militarization of Westminster
	MILITARIZATION in the 1640s
	THE MILITARY IN WESTMINSTER, 1649–60
	THE MILITARY AND WESTMINSTER SOCIETY
Chapter 3: Westminster and the state: sites and rites, 1642–60
	SPECTACLE AND DISPLAY: ECLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS
	SPECTACLE AND DISPLAY: SECULAR BUILDINGS AND SPACES
	STATE ACCOMODATION
	CONCLUSION
Chapter 4: Allegiance and government, 1643–60
	THE PEACE PETITIONS
	MALIGNANTS AND DELINQUENTS
	GOVERNMENT BY COMITTEE: THE LIMITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT?
	THE PURGING OF WESTMINSTER?
	NEGOTIATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT
	INCORPORATION: A ‘CITY’ AT LAST?
	POLITICS AND THE ABBEY
	CONCLUSION
Chapter 5: Fashionable society in ‘these our cloudy days’
	THE 1640S: WARTIME DISRUPTION
	FASHIONABLE SOCIETY UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND PROTECTORATE
	ELITE SOCIABILITY, PUBLIC SPACES AND THE LIMITS OF FASHIONABLE SOCIETY
	CONCLUSION
Chapter 6: Religion, politics and society in revolutionary Westminster
	RELIGIOUS REFORMS
	THE LIMITS OF REFORM
	RELIGION AND THE COMUNITY IN 1650S WESTMINSTER
	CONCLUSION
Conclusion
Bibliography: selected manuscript sources
Index