Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars Staphorst For The New Reich

For The New Reich

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Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars Staphorst For The New ReichMuch ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from