Oliver Cromwell
stands at the gateway of modern history; his resolute Puritanism
formative to concepts of political and religious liberty, the development of
democracy, and the individual's duty to resist tyranny. In The Lord
Protector, Robert S. Paul traces Cromwell's political career, from
his early influences and political experience, to the English Civil Wars, his
brutal conquest of Ireland and campaigns in Scotland.
Where some
historians present Cromwell in extremes, either as a scheming power-hungry
tyrant, or as a noble hero, Paul seeks to understand the Lord Protector through
the religious context of the seventeenth century, removed from the typical
historical readings of his contemporaries. In order to understand Cromwell's
career, Paul's investigation focusses his study through the extent to which
Cromwell shared the theological beliefs common to his time. This relationship
between his religion and political action provides an estimate of Cromwell as a
man of faith, statesman and ruler.
Preface
Introduction
1. Formative Influences
2. Early Political Experience
3. From the Beginning of the Civil War to
the Spring of 1644
4. The Civil War: Spring 1644 to the
Self-Denying Ordinance
5. The Civil War: Spring 1645 to the End
of the First Civil War
6. From the Fall of Oxford to the Army
Debates, July 1647
7. The Army Debates of 1647
8. Carisbrooke to the Outbreak of the
Second Civil War
9. The Second Civil War
10. The Execution of the King
11. The Beginnings of the Commonwealth
Military and Political Problems
12. The Irish Campaign and Its Moral
Issues
13. The Scottish Campaign: Dunbar
14. The Scottish Campaign: Worcester
15. From Worcester to the Expulsion of
the Rump
16. Experiments at Home and Abroad
17. Princeps: The Constitution and the
Major-Generals
18. Princeps: Home and Foreign Policy
19. The Kingship and the End
20. Judgement
Appendices
1.
Letter to Mr. Storie, January II, 1635/6
2.
Biblical Analysis of Cromwell's Letter to Mrs. St. John, October 23, 1638
3.
Extract from "Vindiciae Veritatis"
4.
Letter to Robert Hammond, November 6, 1648
5.
Letter to Robert Hammond, November 25, 1648
6.
The "Saddle Letter" Account
7.
Selected Letters
8.
Professor W.C. Abbott and Oliver Cromwell
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