Religion, Culture and National Community in the 1670s

Tony Claydon is Professor at Bangor University, in the department of History, Welsh History

• Introduction - Living with masquerade: the recent scholarship of the 1670s in the Stuart realms TONY CLAYDON and THOMAS N. CORNS 1 Paradise postponed: the nationhood of nuns in the 1670s NICKY HALLETT 2 The Anglo-Scottish union proposals of 1670 CLARE JACKSON 3 Bunyan's 'certain place': fleeing Esau in the 1670s BETH LYNCH 4 Literary innovation and social transformation in the 1670s NIGEL SMITH 5 'Great agents for libertinism': Rochester and Milton JAMES GRANTHAM TURNER 6 'From the hearts of the people': loyalty, addresses and the public sphere in the exclusion crisis TED VALLANCE 7 King Philip's war and the edges of civil religion in 1670s London ELLIOTT VISCONSI