The Restoration: England in the 1660s

This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.Content: Chapter 1 The Return of the King (1658–1660) (pages 5–31): Chapter 2 The Restoration Year (1660–1661) (pages 32–57): Chapter 3 Great Zerubbabel: Charles and the Convention (1660) (pages 58–84): Chapter 4 Royal Servants: Clarendon and the Cavalier Parliament (1661–1667) (pages 85–108): Chapter 5 Fathers in God: The Church of England (pages 109–131): Chapter 6 ‘The Patience of Heroic Fortitude’: Nonconformity, Sedition and Dissent (pages 132–158): Chapter 7 ‘Luxury with Charles restor'd’? The Temper of the Times (pages 132–158): Chapter 8 ‘Male and Female Created He Them’ (pages 183–205):