Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
1625-1688
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Britain in Revolution
Author: Austin WoolrychPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191542008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
This is the definitive history of the English Civil War, set in its full historical context from the accession of Charles I to the Restoration of Charles II. These were the most turbulent years of British history and their reverberations have been felt down the centuries. Throughout the middle decades of the seventeenth century England, Scotland, and Ireland were convulsed by political upheaval and wracked by rebellion and civil war. The Stuart monarchy was in abeyance for twenty years in all three kingdoms, and Charles I famously met his death on the scaffold. Austin Woolrych breathes life back into the story of these years, the sweep of his prose buttressed by the authority of a lifetime's scholarship. He captures the drama and the passion, the momentum of events and the force of contingency. He brilliantly interweaves the history of the three kingdoms and their peoples, gripping the reader with the fast-paced yet always balanced story.
The Lord Lieutenancy in England, 1625-1688
Author: Victor Louis StaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
Book Description
The Making of the Western Mind
Author: Florence Melian StawellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Popery and Politics in England 1660-1688
Author: John MillerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
In the reign of Charles II, over a century after the Protestant Reformation, England was faced with the prospect of a Catholic king when the King's brother, the future James II became a Catholic. The reaction to his conversion, the fears it aroused and their background form the main theme of this book.
The University of Cambridge and the English Revolution, 1625-1688
Author: J. D. TwiggPerceptions of a Monarchy Without a King
Author: Benjamin WoodfordPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773541098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
How Britain's religious and political powers reacted to an absolute leader without royal blood.
The Foundations of English Literature
Author: Fred Lewis PatteePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publications of National Monetary Commission
Author: Networks, Interconnection, Connectivity
Author: Ellen R. WelchPublisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823379704
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism. Yet this process of centrali-zation depended on the creation of strong infrastructures connecting France's seat of political and cultural power to the provinces and the rest of the world: an efficient postal system, Europe's largest network of foreign embassies, trade links stretching to Asia and the Americas. How might a focus on these networks – and on the agents, materials, concepts, and practices that constituted them – broaden our mental topo-graphy of seventeenth-century French culture? This question animated a rich discussion during the May 2014 conference of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century French Literature, held at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The present volume represents a selec-tion of the contributions to the conference.