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Nov 12, 2021 · Rather, Devil-Land is a history of a siege mentality. Jackson portrays England as a country ill at ease with the idea of foreign influence, yet simultaneously blind to the very limited nature of ...
Jan 1, 2021 · Clare Jackson. 3.88. 320 ratings57 reviews. This dazzling, original and hugely engaging book tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. To many foreigner observers, seventeenth-century England was 'Devil-Land': a country riven by political faction, religious difference, financial ruin and royal collapse.
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Dec 30, 2021 · A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among 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. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most ...
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Sep 30, 2021 · Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688. Clare Jackson. Penguin UK, Sep 30, 2021 - History - 704 pages. *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 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story".
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688. By Clare Jackson. Allen Lane 688pp £35. History tends not to come with serving suggestions, but it does make a lot of difference where you choose to slice it. In the case of early modern England, the knife usually falls around 1603, between the flamboyance of the Tudor era and the dysfunction and ...
Devil-Land is the story of the rise and fall of the Stuart dynasty in England, as seen through the eyes of our often confused European neighbours. ... is described by Clare Jackson as the first ...
Devil-Land: England under Siege 1588-1688. Among 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. Clare Jackson’s dazzling, original account of English history’s most turbulent and radical era tells ...
