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Blood, Faith and Iron: A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England

By (author) Paul Belford
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Archaeopress, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 13th Nov 2018
Dimensions: w 171mm h 241mm d 10mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN-10: 1789690684
ISBN-13: 9781789690682
Barcode No: 9781789690682
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Synopsis
The Ironbridge Gorge is an iconic industrial landscape, presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a national narrative of heroic Protestant individualism. However this is not the full story. In fact this industrial landscape was created by an entrepreneurial Catholic dynasty over 200 years before the Iron Bridge was built. This book tells that story for the first time. Acquiring land at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Brooke family invested in coal mining and iron production - and introduced a radical new method of steelmaking which transformed that industry. Drawing together years of painstaking archaeological and historical research, this book looks in detail at the landscape, buildings and industrial installations created by the Brooke dynasty between the Dissolution and the English Civil War. It also explores the broader contexts - religious, economic and political - which shaped their mind-set and their actions. It considers medieval influences on these later developments, and looks at how the Brookes' Catholicism was reflected in the way they created a new industrial landscape. In so doing it questions traditional narratives of English industrialisation, and calls for a more sophisticated understanding of this period by historical archaeologists.

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