Devil-Land England Under Siege, 1588-1688 [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09WJJSWJS | 2022 | 24 hours and 10 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 692 MB
A groundbreaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, 17th-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 the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed.