Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Jackson Clare
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Jackson Clare *WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY…
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Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Jackson Clare
*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Extraordinary ... Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular Island Story. one of those perception-changing books of British history which only come along every few decades' Andrew Marr 'A big historical advance.
Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday TimesA ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English historyAmong foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse.