Book contents
- The Rule of Manhood
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- The Rule of Manhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Emasculated Kingship
- Part II The Masculine Republic
- Chapter 5 John Milton, Marriage, and the Realisation of Republican Manhood
- Chapter 6 ‘Begin now to know themselves men, & to breath after liberty’
- Chapter 7 ‘So much power and piety in one’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 7 - ‘So much power and piety in one’
Oliver Cromwell and the Masculine Republic
from Part II - The Masculine Republic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 January 2021
- The Rule of Manhood
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- The Rule of Manhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Emasculated Kingship
- Part II The Masculine Republic
- Chapter 5 John Milton, Marriage, and the Realisation of Republican Manhood
- Chapter 6 ‘Begin now to know themselves men, & to breath after liberty’
- Chapter 7 ‘So much power and piety in one’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the devastating armed conflicts of the English civil wars, Cavaliers and Roundheads routinely justified their cause and denounced their rivals through competing conceptions and languages of gender and masculinity. Royalists condemned parliamentary soldiers as cuckolds, their rebellious posture to the King’s government mirrored by households in disorder. As one Cavalier summarised, Roundheads and their families rebel against all ten commandments, the laws of nature and society: ‘Incests, Adulteries, Rapes, deflowrings, Fornications and other venereal postures & actions … daily passe and escape uncontrolled & unpunish’d, and, as it may be conjectur’d tolerated’.
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- The Rule of ManhoodTyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660, pp. 310 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020