Faith and the European identity of England, 1660-1760

信仰与英国的欧洲身份，1660-1760

• 批准号: AH/E000088/1
• 负责人: Anthony Claydon
• 金额: $ 3.4万
• 依托单位: Bangor University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE000088%2F1
• 关键词: Faith; European; identity; England; 1660

This project reconceptualises the development of England's national identity, her relations with Europe, and her internal politics, in the century after the 1660 restoration. Examining contemporary debates, it suggests a strong reformed faith dissolved any narrow Englishness into wider European identities: particularly senses of belonging to a 'protestant international', and also a 'Christendom' standing above confessional rivalries. It therefore challenges recent suggestions that religion ceased to be important in English self-awareness in the later Stuart age, or that England was defined against a perceived continental 'other'. Having outlined the importance of the trans-national religious identities, it examines their role in discussions of English foreign policy, arguing that it was loyalty to the European reformation and to Christendom which drove English rise to great power status; and then demonstrates how the wider entities shaped internal divisions on the constitution and the role of the official church. A monograph to be finalised during the proposed leave surveys all these areas; an article (research and writing to be completed during leave) will focus on the key role of Gilbert Burnet. Burnet (1643-1715) was one of the most influential figures of his age . He was its historian, a bishop, a chief court politician and propgandist, and the leading theoretician of the church. His concern for the protestant international - born of a traditional 'two church' vision of the world - drove a series of important writings which cemented England within European the English mind and created controversies which ensured this supra-national identity remained at the heart of national concerns.

该项目重新概念化的英格兰的民族身份，她与欧洲的关系，她的内部政治，在世纪后的1660年恢复的发展。考察当代的辩论，它表明一个强大的改革信仰溶解成更广泛的欧洲身份的任何狭隘的英格兰：特别是属于一个“新教国际”的感觉，也是一个“基督教世界”站在信仰的竞争之上。因此，它挑战了最近的建议，宗教不再是重要的，在英国的自我意识在后期斯图亚特时代，或英国是定义对一个感知的大陆“他者”。在概述了跨国宗教身份的重要性之后，它考察了它们在英国外交政策讨论中的作用，认为正是对欧洲改革和基督教世界的忠诚推动了英国崛起为大国;然后展示了更广泛的实体如何塑造了宪法和官方教会的作用的内部分歧。一本将在拟议休假期间定稿的专著将对所有这些领域进行调查;一篇文章（休假期间完成的研究和写作）将重点关注吉尔伯特伯内特的关键作用。伯内特（1643-1715）是他那个时代最有影响力的人物之一。他是它的历史学家，一个主教，首席法院政治家和propgandist，并领导理论家的教会。他对新教国际的关注--源于传统的“两个教会”的世界观--推动了一系列重要的著作，这些著作将英国巩固在欧洲的英国思想中，并创造了争议，确保这种超国家的身份仍然是国家关注的核心。