Author: Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England
Author: Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England
Author: R. Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court between the last decade of the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642.
Royalists and Patriots
Author: J.P. Sommerville
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317882075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317882075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining the main political theories in c.17th England - the Divine Right of Kings, government by consent, and the ancient constitution - he considers their impact on actual events. He draws on major political thinkers like Hobbes and Locke, but also on lesser but more representative figures, to explore what was new in these ideas and what was merely the common currency of the age. This major new edition incorporates all the latest thinking on the subject.
Political Communication and Political Culture in England, 1558-1688
Author: Barbara J. Shapiro
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804784582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this culture was expressed and communicated. While the discussion focuses primarily on genres such as the sermon, newsbook, poetry, and drama, it also considers the role of events and institutions. Shapiro is the first to explore and elucidate the entire web of communication in early modern English political life.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804784582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688. Shapiro argues that an assessment of English political culture requires an examination of all means by which this culture was expressed and communicated. While the discussion focuses primarily on genres such as the sermon, newsbook, poetry, and drama, it also considers the role of events and institutions. Shapiro is the first to explore and elucidate the entire web of communication in early modern English political life.
Queenship in Britain, 1660-1837
Author: Clarissa Campbell Orr
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057694
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Queenship in Britain 1660-1837 looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. With contributions from an international group of scholars this book brings together new approaches in gender history and court studies to present a re-evaluation of this previously neglected area in the study of the British monarchy. An explanation of these new approaches is contained in a substantial introduction. While the essays perform detailed discussions on a variety of more specific subjects, from how the foreign and Catholic wives of the restored Stuarts coped with a libertine court and a Protestant nation, to the travails of Princesses of Wales, the marriage options of royal daughters, and the question of whether Queen Adelaide (wife of William IV) was a harmless philanthropist re-establishing royal respectability or a real political influence behind the throne.
Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays
Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580-1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays examines the changing ideological conceptions of sovereignty and their on-stage representations in the public theaters during the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods (1580-1642). The study examines the way in which the early modern stage presented a critical dialogue concerning the nature of sovereignty through the lens of specifically English history, focusing in particular on the presentation and representation of monarchy. It presents the subgenre of the English history play as a specific reaction to the surrounding political context capable of engaging with and influencing popular and elite conceptions of monarchy and government. This project is the first of its kind to specifically situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context; its purpose is not only to provide an historical timeline of English political theory pertaining to monarchy, but to situate the drama as a significant influence on the production and dissemination thereof during the Tudor and Stuart periods. Some of the plays considered here, notably those by Shakespeare and Marlowe, have been extensively and thoroughly studied. But others-such as Edmund Ironside, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and King John and Matilda-have not previously been the focus of much critical attention.
The Augustan Court
Author: R. O. Bucholz
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804720809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804720809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Staid respectability and ineffectualness. A special feature of the book is a collective biography of all 1,525 men, women, and children at the court of Queen Anne, the first such study of the personnel of any large institution of later Stuart government.
A Political History of Tudor and Stuart England
Author: Victor Stater
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This wide-ranging single-volume collection presents the accounts of Yorkists and Lancastrians, Protestants and Catholics, and Roundheads and Cavaliers side by side to illustrate England's difficult transition from the medieval to the modern.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
This wide-ranging single-volume collection presents the accounts of Yorkists and Lancastrians, Protestants and Catholics, and Roundheads and Cavaliers side by side to illustrate England's difficult transition from the medieval to the modern.
A Companion to Stuart Britain
Author: Barry Coward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047099889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Covering the period from the accession of James I to the death of Queen Anne, this companion provides a magisterial overview of the ‘long' seventeenth century in British history. Comprises original contributions by leading scholars of the period Gives a magisterial overview of the ‘long' seventeenth century Provides a critical reference to historical debates about Stuart Britain Offers new insights into the major political, religious and economic changes that occurred during this period Includes bibliographical guidance for students and scholars
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047099889X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Covering the period from the accession of James I to the death of Queen Anne, this companion provides a magisterial overview of the ‘long' seventeenth century in British history. Comprises original contributions by leading scholars of the period Gives a magisterial overview of the ‘long' seventeenth century Provides a critical reference to historical debates about Stuart Britain Offers new insights into the major political, religious and economic changes that occurred during this period Includes bibliographical guidance for students and scholars
The Rule of Manhood
Author: Jamie A. Gianoutsos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.