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Loading... Renaissance and Reformation: 1300-1648 (Ideas & institutions in western civilization)by G. R. Elton, Norman F. Cantor
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Elton tries to be a non-Marxist historian, and thus is reduced to the amassing of documents and the recounting of personal foibles to explain what amount to mass movements . His structure for the seventeenth century in England is that Charles I was incompetent, and thus the circle of court favourites should have been personally balanced by the monarch. however their personal struggle for pensions, monopolies, and social prominence, sent England into three civil wars. Alas, what this collection of useful documents demonstrates is that as the competent were unable to survive and gain the power to enact useful laws and policies. So, the outsiders created a power structure capable of removing the Stuart form of incompetent government and instituted a narrow theocracy. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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