The Short Term Cause Of The English Civil War
Indeed, it would be inaccurate to suggest that there hasn’t been historical debate in what caused the English Civil war due to the bias historical interpretation possesses. Many former historians have proposed that it was long term causes that eventually deepened to cause uncontrollable conflict and division within England, such as religious and socioeconomic factors. Yet contemporary historians such Revisionists focus on short term factors, emphasising that it was the absolutist rule of King Charles who caused social and political breakdown escalating to war. Additionally, post- revisionists assess short term causes but value long term factors as a necessary cause for the English Civil War. For a historian to suggest what factors integrated
to cause social disunity by 22nd August 1642 reveals the complexity of interpretation and therefore more than one view must be taken into consideration to investigate how various causes transformed into the English Civil War because no two interpretations are the same. One key historian, John Morrill explores post-revisionist religious and social influences for causing the English Civil War, highlighting that the role of the King was predominantly significant but long term factors are vital into why the King was to blame. This interpretation is contrasted slightly with Mary Fulbrook who has the perception of an ‘anti-revisionist’, centralising on social factors in a shorter time period arguing that the war wasn’t inevitable. But like Morrill, Fullbrook explores the notion that Charles’s was blameworthy due to his policies worsening social and cultural alienation within England and Scotland. Another pivotal interpretation is from Conrad Russell who has the revisionist perception that, like Fulbrook and Morrill to some extent, Charles was to blame. Russell argues that the war wasn’t inevitable but he addresses the international relations of the multiple Kingdoms with more emphasis, with underlying long-term religious and economic factors that caused the English Civil War. The causes for Civil War all vary from historian to historian, yet social causes would have been fundamental in the driving for war because all causes to some extent were inflicted upon society. Hence, it can be perceived that the long term instability of religious, economic and cultural relations between crown, parliament and the lower classes reached breaking point causing the drive towards the English Civil war.
to cause social disunity by 22nd August 1642 reveals the complexity of interpretation and therefore more than one view must be taken into consideration to investigate how various causes transformed into the English Civil War because no two interpretations are the same. One key historian, John Morrill explores post-revisionist religious and social influences for causing the English Civil War, highlighting that the role of the King was predominantly significant but long term factors are vital into why the King was to blame. This interpretation is contrasted slightly with Mary Fulbrook who has the perception of an ‘anti-revisionist’, centralising on social factors in a shorter time period arguing that the war wasn’t inevitable. But like Morrill, Fullbrook explores the notion that Charles’s was blameworthy due to his policies worsening social and cultural alienation within England and Scotland. Another pivotal interpretation is from Conrad Russell who has the revisionist perception that, like Fulbrook and Morrill to some extent, Charles was to blame. Russell argues that the war wasn’t inevitable but he addresses the international relations of the multiple Kingdoms with more emphasis, with underlying long-term religious and economic factors that caused the English Civil War. The causes for Civil War all vary from historian to historian, yet social causes would have been fundamental in the driving for war because all causes to some extent were inflicted upon society. Hence, it can be perceived that the long term instability of religious, economic and cultural relations between crown, parliament and the lower classes reached breaking point causing the drive towards the English Civil war.