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Publics and Participation: England, Britain, and Europe in the “Post-Reformation”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2017

Peter Lake
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Abstract

This article responds to the pieces collected in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies, all of which seek to take some notion of the politics of the public sphere and either apply it to, or break it upon the wheel of, various versions of British history during the post-Reformation period. It seeks to bring the other articles into conversation both with one another as well as with existing work on the topic.

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Journal of British Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , October 2017 , pp. 836 - 854
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Copyright © The North American Conference on British Studies 2017 

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