Insolent Proceedings

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity and Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt UniversityJason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London

• Preface: Ann Hughes as historian, friend and mentor – Peter LakeIntroduction: rethinking public politics in the English Revolution – Peter Lake and Jason Peacey1 ‘Great conformitants’ and ‘right ambidexters’: puritans, conformity and the challenge of Laudianism – Anthony Milton2 Killing (Catholic) officers no crime? The politics of religious violence in England in 1640 – John Walter3 Anatomy of the General Rising: militancy and mobilisation in London, 1643 – David Como4 ‘In the hollow of his wooden leg’: the transmission of civil war materials, 1642–9 – Karen Britland5 Puritanism, parish and polemic in civil war London: the case of Thomas Bakewell – Elliot Vernon6 William Walwyn’s Montaigne and the struggle for toleration in the English Revolution – David Loewenstein7 An accursed family: the Scottish crisis and the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650–2 – Thomas Cogswell8 Indemnity, sovereignty and justice in the army debates of 1647 – Sean Kelsey9 Milton and Winstanley: a conversation – Thomas N. Corns10 Women, print and locality: Richard Culmer and the practices of polemic during the English Revolution – Jason Peacey11 ‘Threshing among the people’: Ranters, Quakers and the revolutionary public sphere – Kate PetersIndex

'This colourful and lively collection of essays comprises a welcome festschrift to Ann Hughes, professor emerita of early modern history at Keele University,and a highly influential historian of religion, politics and gender during the English Revolution.'Andrew Hopper, University of Oxford, Parliamentary History (June 2023)