History: Review of New Books, March 22nd, 1998
Glassey, Lionel K. J., ed. The Reigns of Charles II and James VII and II New York: St. Martin's Press 309 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-312-16508-0 Publication Date: May 1997
Lionel K. J. Glassey has assembled an accomplished group of contributors whose scholarship has significantly shaped our understanding of the Restoration. Glassey's short introduction sets the parameters, asking how "normalcy" in political, religious, social, and economic matters was to be defined and pursued after 1660. Mark Goldie briskly describes the language of Restoration political thought, the flourishing cult of kingship,...
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