The thing you need to realize is that Charles had basically no support in the country a year before the first war started, but in the months immediately before it began that rapidly changed when a lot of people began to realize that the proto-Bolsheviks in parliament were out to radically reshape society in a shameless bid for untrammeled power.
The English Revolution may not have been quite as mad as the French or Russian ones, but it was an important prototype for the open disregard for Europe's Tradition that was to come. Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else, but after the seventeenth century they swiftly acquired their modern reputation of commerce-loving secular materialists whose only claim to the traditions of old is a puppet monarch who does whatever an all-powerful parliament says.
>In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
Edmund Burke looks like a prophet for predicting Napoleon so accurately, until you remember that he was just describing Cromwell.
Yes the Scottish Covenanters are extremely important at key times, but scottish and english affairs were fairly separate back then, but intertwined. The english civil war was hugely important in shaping political discourse in england. You could start a book on modern english politics from there. The Earl of Montrose does fascinate me and scotland had a lot of civil war stuff. Barry Coward has a great book on the stuarts
>Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else, but after the seventeenth century they swiftly acquired their modern reputation of commerce-loving secular materialists whose only claim to the traditions of old is a puppet monarch who does whatever an all-powerful parliament says.
and that's why they not only conquered the world but are also much richer than you to this day, rajesh
https://i.imgur.com/Lde4AnR.jpg
who was right IQfy?
parliament was in the right for pushing england away from thirdie shithole status and towards modernity, even if it was through medium term failure
>Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else
Ah yes, Europeans were once all Roman Catholics, like the Greeks and Serbs and Russians.
Can you imagine how traumatic it would have been to live through the civil war? I think it killed the highest percentage of english people for any war. Basically every town and city will have some sort of skirmish or even ruins of walls and castles that one side shelled or sieged.
The thing you need to realize is that Charles had basically no support in the country a year before the first war started, but in the months immediately before it began that rapidly changed when a lot of people began to realize that the proto-Bolsheviks in parliament were out to radically reshape society in a shameless bid for untrammeled power.
The English Revolution may not have been quite as mad as the French or Russian ones, but it was an important prototype for the open disregard for Europe's Tradition that was to come. Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else, but after the seventeenth century they swiftly acquired their modern reputation of commerce-loving secular materialists whose only claim to the traditions of old is a puppet monarch who does whatever an all-powerful parliament says.
>In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
Edmund Burke looks like a prophet for predicting Napoleon so accurately, until you remember that he was just describing Cromwell.
>proto-Bolsheviks
oh please, the parliamentarians were hardly proto-bolsheviks.
they became them after they no longer had the papist boogeyman to fight
archbishop laud? Strafford did nothing wrong. Laud was a bit of a prat.
English this English that. The whole series of events wasn't started in England.
Yes the Scottish Covenanters are extremely important at key times, but scottish and english affairs were fairly separate back then, but intertwined. The english civil war was hugely important in shaping political discourse in england. You could start a book on modern english politics from there. The Earl of Montrose does fascinate me and scotland had a lot of civil war stuff. Barry Coward has a great book on the stuarts
>Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else, but after the seventeenth century they swiftly acquired their modern reputation of commerce-loving secular materialists whose only claim to the traditions of old is a puppet monarch who does whatever an all-powerful parliament says.
and that's why they not only conquered the world but are also much richer than you to this day, rajesh
parliament was in the right for pushing england away from thirdie shithole status and towards modernity, even if it was through medium term failure
>Once Europeans were perfectly normal Roman-Catholics beholden to their sovereign like everyone else
Ah yes, Europeans were once all Roman Catholics, like the Greeks and Serbs and Russians.
Levelers
Can you imagine how traumatic it would have been to live through the civil war? I think it killed the highest percentage of english people for any war. Basically every town and city will have some sort of skirmish or even ruins of walls and castles that one side shelled or sieged.
then there's the irish side of it
Cromwell and the Puritans in general
bunp
Cromwell obvi
Hobbes
Cromwell.
>"English" civil war
>started by a Scottish army invading England
Yep its an English megolomania episode
figures like john hampden, john pym are just more compelling
Cao Cao as usual.