Charles I and the People of England

The story of the reign of Charles I - told through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution

David Cressy was born in England and educated at Cambridge, but built his career in the United States. He has taught at colleges and universities in California, Ohio, and New Mexico, and has won numerous fellowships and awards. His work is driven by curiosity about the relationships of central and local authority, elite and popular culture, official and unofficial religion, and ordinary men and women, a curiosity that ranges from kinship to book-burning, from cross-dressing to Gypsies. When not engaged in historical research he may be found exploring the deserts and beaches of the American West.

Preface
Prologue: Lucy Martin's Message
Introduction
1: The Commonwealth of England
2: The Oath of a King
3: Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection
4: Unprosperous Wars
5: An Accessible Monarch?
6: Importunate Petitioners
7: The King's Religion and the People's Church
8: The King's Declaration and the People's Sports
9: Sacred Kingship Eclipsed
10: The Blindness of Charles I
Notes
Bibliography
Index