This is a must read for students and scholars of English literature.

Graham Parry offers an accessible survey of the achievements of Laudian culture, so much of which was destroyed in the Civil Wars, taking into account every area and medium which it influenced.

Many of the most learned men of the age addressed themselves to antiquarian enquiry and this book presents lively and fascinating portraits of Camden, Cotton, Selden, Spelman, Ussher, Dugdale, Aubrey, and many other lesser-known scholars.

This book explores the methods by which a distinctive iconography was created for each Stuart king, describes the cultural life of the Civil War period and the Cromwellian Protectorate, and analyses the impact of the antiquarian movement ...