Author: James HeathPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An Admonition to My Lord Protector and His Council
Author: James HeathAn admonition to my Lord Protector and his Council of their present danger, with the means to secure him and his Posterity in the present greatnesse, etc. By J. H., i.e. James Howell?
Author: James HowellAn Admonition to My Lord Protector and His Council, of Their Present Danger
Author: James HowellPublisher:
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Category : Divine right of kings
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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An Admonition to My Lord Protector and His Council, of Their Present Danger
Author: James HeathPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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An Admonition to My Lord Protector and His Council, of Their Present Danger
Author: James HeathPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King
Author: Benjamin WoodfordPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773588469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Oliver Cromwell had not a drop of royal blood in him. Yet in 1657, prompted by the political chaos that followed the execution of Charles I and inspired by a belief that a return to monarchy was the only way to stabilize the nation, parliament offered Cromwell the crown of Britain. In Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King, Benjamin Woodford explores how factions both inside and outside of government reacted to this unprecedented event. Moving away from a biographical focus on Cromwell, Woodford looks to the print culture of the period to examine kingship and the Cromwellian regime as a complex phenomenon that elicited diverse reactions - from broadly in favour to dead-set against. Woodford analyzes Cromwell's speeches along with propaganda, newspapers, poetry, republican writings, and the works of religious sects. The fact that many of these writings were produced by men and women who were not members of the government demonstrates that both politicians and the general public were interested in the topics of Cromwell and kingship. Cromwell's military and political power rendered him a candidate for kingship, but even with his record of achievement, the offer of the crown to a non-nobleman was controversial. Perceptions of a Monarchy without a King reveals the entire nation's responses to the kingship debates while simultaneously illustrating the persistence of the monarchy in the 1650s.
Notes on the Writings of James Howell
Author: William Harvey VannA Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: The tracts and pamphlets [A-Fyson
Author: London Institution. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
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Devil-Land
Author: Clare JacksonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141984589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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