Political culture, the state, and the problem of religious war in Britain and Ireland, 1578-1625

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Smuts, R. Malcolm (Robert Malcolm), author

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"This book examines how the strategic problem of containing threats of religious war and violence shaped political culture and the development of the state in Britain and Ireland between Elizabeth ...

"This book examines how the strategic problem of containing threats of religious war and violence shaped political culture and the development of the state in Britain and Ireland between Elizabeth I's last serious courtship and the death of James VI and I. In doing so it shows how the religious politics of England, Scotland and Ireland were thoroughly intertwined with each other, and with developments on the European Continent, requiring a treatment that moves beyond a framework of national history by connecting events in different countries in a continuous narrative. Specific topics covered include the interaction of religious and dynastic politics not only in relations between royal families but among the nobility and gentry; efforts by the Elizabethan state to contain threats of Catholic rebellions; the often fraught relations between the Elizabethan regime and James VI in Scotland; cultural attitudes related to military entrepreneurship on both land and sea; challenges to Protestant state power in Ireland; English intervention in the wars of the Netherlands; the interplay between English and Scottish conflicts over Presbyterianism in the 1590s; efforts to create a more integrated and effective state encompassing all of Britain and Ireland after 1603; and the European policies of James VI and I"--

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