Culture And Politics At The Court Of Charles Ii 1660 1685

Author : Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835908
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685 written by Matthew Jenkinson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reconstitution of the royal court in 1660 brought with it the restoration of fears that had been associated with earlier Stuart courts: disorder, sexual liberty, popery and arbitrary government. This volume illustrates the ways in which court culture was informed by the heady politics of Britain between 1660 and 1685.

Author : Matthew Jenkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Court Culture in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685 written by Matthew Jenkinson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Harris
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141926740
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration written by Tim Harris and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration England revelling in its freedom from the austerity of Puritan rule under a merry monarch and reconstructs the human tragedy of Restoration politics where people were brutalised, hounded and exploited by a regime that was desperately insecure after two decade of civil war and republican rule.

Author : R. Malcolm Smuts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349276707
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Power in England, 1585-1685 written by R. Malcolm Smuts and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh synthesis of relationships between cultural history and politics, from the eve of the Armada to the death of Charles II in 1685. It rejects whiggish and Marxist teleologies that have shaped previous accounts of this subject and emphasises instead the diversity of cultural perspectives available in the period; the role played by concepts of honour, law, divine providence and humanist scholarship; the profound importance of religious tensions in shaping political imagination; and the growing cultural importance of conflict and partisanship during and after the Civil War.

Author : Gary S. De Krey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137052287
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration and Revolution in Britain written by Gary S. De Krey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles II was restored to the rule of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660, less than twelve years after the execution of his father, Charles I, and the ensuing republican experiment in government. Popular at first, the Restoration nevertheless failed to provide lasting settlement in any of the British kingdoms. Restoration and Revolution in Britain examines the political history of these kingdoms, from the Interregnum through Britain's eighteenth-century rise to power. Written especially for students approaching the Restoration for the first time, this essential introduction: - Assesses the reasons for the failure of settlement in the reigns of Charles and of his brother, James II - Integrates the histories of Charles's different realms - Examines the many connections between politics and Protestant religious disagreements - Provides helpful historical context for understanding a range of contemporary authors such as Bunyan, Locke and Milton - Concludes with an examination of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 and explains why settlement was finally achieved through revolution rather than through restoration

Author : Julia Marciari Alexander
Publisher : Studies in British Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II written by Julia Marciari Alexander and published by Studies in British Art. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character.

Author : Grant Tapsell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843833050
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85 written by Grant Tapsell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1681 until his death in 1685 Charles II ruled without a Parliament, and his personal rule forms the central subject of this book. The author discusses the nature of the Whig and Tory parties at this crucial period of their formation as political parties, showing how they coped with the absence of a parliamentary forum.

Author : Jenny Uglow
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429964227
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gambling Man written by Jenny Uglow and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery sovereign," laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theaters may have been restored, but the king himself was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court, and his colorful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the English Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, as spring after the long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no way to turn back, no way he could "restore" the old dispensation. Certainty had vanished. The divinity of kingship had ended with his father's beheading. "Honor" was now a word tossed around in duels. "Providence" could no longer be trusted. As the country was rocked by plague, fire, and war, people searched for new ideas by which to live. And exactly ten years after he arrived, Charles would again stand on the shore at Dover, this time placing the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV of France. Jenny Uglow's previous biographies have won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and International PEN's Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History. A Gambling Man is Uglow at her best: both a vivid portrait of Charles II that explores his elusive nature and a spirited evocation of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world on the brink of modernity.

Author : Paul Kuritz
Publisher : PAUL KURITZ
ISBN 13 : 9780135478615
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Theatre History written by Paul Kuritz and published by PAUL KURITZ. This book was released on 1988 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203127
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Download or read book Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England written by R. Malcolm Smuts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.