Faith and the European identity of England, 1660-1760

该项目重新定义了1660年复辟后的一个世纪中英格兰国家身份的发展，她与欧洲的关系，以及她的内部政治。通过对当代争论的分析，作者认为一种强烈的改革信仰将狭隘的英国人特征消解为更广泛的欧洲人特征：尤其是对“新教国际”的归属感，以及凌驾于忏悔对立之上的“基督教世界”。因此，它挑战了最近的观点，即在斯图亚特时代晚期，宗教在英国人的自我意识中不再重要，或者英格兰被定义为一个被认为是大陆的“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，认为是对欧洲改革和基督教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在宪法和官方教会的角色上形成内部分歧。在所有这些范畴的建议休假调查期间完成专著；一篇文章（研究和写作将在休假期间完成）将集中在吉尔伯特·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。他是教会的历史学家，主教，主要的宫廷政治家和宣传者，以及教会的主要理论家。他对新教国际的关注——源于传统的“两教会”世界观——推动了一系列重要的著作，这些著作巩固了英国在欧洲人心中的地位，并引发了争议，确保了这种超国家认同仍然是国家关注的核心。

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.