Author: Jason McElligott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139466364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from the vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy between royalist 'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists' and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and contingent than has hitherto been recognized. This is a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the Civil Wars and of early modern England more generally.
Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars
Author: Jason McElligott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139466364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from the vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy between royalist 'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists' and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and contingent than has hitherto been recognized. This is a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the Civil Wars and of early modern England more generally.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139466364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely neglected. This volume of essays by leading scholars in the field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or background from the vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy between royalist 'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists' and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and contingent than has hitherto been recognized. This is a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the Civil Wars and of early modern England more generally.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Right to be King
Author: Howard Nenner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349129526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth's reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest, and election. It is a study of the competing principles of parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental law, and the ways in which tension between dynastic expectations and national needs were addressed and resolved.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349129526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth's reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest, and election. It is a study of the competing principles of parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental law, and the ways in which tension between dynastic expectations and national needs were addressed and resolved.
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
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Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Languages : en
Pages : 814
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: Cavalier and Puritan
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Catalogue of the varied and valuable, historical, poetical, theological and miscellaneous library
Author: John Burton (Rydal Mount)
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Catalogue of the McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Harvard University Bulletin
Author: Harvard University
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Rydal mount, near Ambleside, Westmoreland. Catalogue of the ... library of ... William Wordsworth ... which will be sold by auction
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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