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Author: Gerald M. MacLean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-04-27
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521475662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary and cultural changes reflecting new commercial and imperial interests of Restoration Britain.
Author: Grant Tapsell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1526130726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field and offers new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era, complementing recent research into political and intellectual culture under the later Stuarts. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical and lay interests. Attention is also given to how the Church of England interacted with Protestant churches in Scotland, Ireland, continental Europe and colonial North America. A concluding section examines the difficult relationships and creative tensions between the established Church in England, Protestant dissenters, and Roman Catholics. The later Stuart Church is intended to be both accessible for students and thought-provoking for scholars within the broad early modern field.
Author: Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-28
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521554398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1996 collection of essays discusses the European dimension of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court.
Author: Alan Houston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-20
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521802529
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Author: Barry Coward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 047099889X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering 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
Author: Emma Depledge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-26
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1108667341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.
Author: Angus Stroud
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-31
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1134624654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and the latest interpretations by modern historians. Starting with the legacy of Elizabeth I, and ending with the reign of William III and Mary. Stuart England covers all aspects of the monarchy, high and low politics and the culture of the people. Key topics include: * English society and religion * ideas of monarchy and government * finance and parliament * foreign policy With comprehensive questions and analysis, exercises, diagrams and maps,Stuart England provides an excellent and indispensable guide to English history of the seventeenth century.
Author: Eveline Cruickshanks
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0752486594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic kings of mainland Europe. They were centres of great culture, patronage, ceremony and politics. The real importance of the courts, though down-played for many years, is now beginning to be fully recognised and this first major study of the Stuart courts in England, Scotland and Ireland examines them in their full cultural and historical context. Scholars of international reputation and up and coming, younger scholars have been brought together to give us an insight into many aspects of the Stuart courts. This book includes essays on culture and patronage of the arts and social history. What was it really like at the court? What rules applied? How did the courtiers behave? Finally, the crucial interplay between court life and political life, and politics, is examined in detail. This book is a major contribution to a flourishing area of scholarship and will be required reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century history, court studies or the arts in the early modern period.
Author: Barry Reay
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1317872622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
Author: Phil Withington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 052182687X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly pivotal place of cities and boroughs within the national polity. It considers the practices that constituted urban citizenship as well as its impact on the economic, patriarchal and religious life of towns and the larger commonwealth. The author has recovered the language and concepts used at the time, whether by eminent citizens like Andrew Marvell or more humble tradesmen and craftsmen. Unprecedented in terms of the range of its sources and freshness of its approach, the book reveals a dimension of early modern culture that has major implications for how we understand the English state, economy and 'public sphere'; the political upheavals of the mid-seventeenth-century and popular political participation more generally.
