{"product_id":"9781782048305","title":"Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs: The Entring Book, 1677-1691","description":"'An exceptionally significant monograph, and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has done more than anyone elseto illuminate the political and religious assumptions of late seventeenth-century Englishmen.' Dr Grant Tapsell, University of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eRoger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs\u003c\/i\u003e explains amovement, illuminates the world of its emblematic representative, and explores one of the most remarkable documents of the seventeenth century.\u003cbr\u003e Morrice's \u003ci\u003eEntring Book\u003c\/i\u003e was supremely well-informed, passionately committed, and relentlessly opinionated. Chronicling the years 1677 to 1691, nearly a million words in length, it is the fullest surviving record of the tumultuous final years ofthe Stuart regime, from the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis to the Glorious Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e Morrice was a Puritan clergyman turned confidential reporter for leading Whig politicians, a barometer ofopinion, for whom reliable information was vital for public action. Just twenty years after Pepys's \u003ci\u003eDiary\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEntring Book\u003c\/i\u003e depicts a darker England, gripped by a new crisis of 'popery and arbitrary government'.\u003cbr\u003e Mark Goldie's deeply considered book examines the fortunes of Puritanism in the later Stuart age. It offers a story of disillusion and diminuendo, of struggles for survival in the face of intolerance, and of self-understanding among those who hoped to transform England through 'Godly rule'.\u003cbr\u003e Yet the book also tells a countervailing story of revitalized and transformed Puritanism. Puritans worked through parliament, the royal court, and the households of gentry, merchants, lawyers, and clergy. Setting out to galvanize civil society, they mobilized public opinion, organized electorates, and deployed the arts of journalism, influence, and persuasion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book has been adapted, with a new substantial introduction and updated bibliography, from thefirst volume of the \u003ci\u003eEntring Book of Roger Morrice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Mark Goldie is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College.","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Group Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177874800880,"sku":"9781782048305","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781782048305_p0.jpg?v=1763720098","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781782048305","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}