Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mcelligott, Jason

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511339752
• Artikelnr.: 38198281

Autorenporträt

Jason McElligott is the J. P. R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early-Modern Printed Book at Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England (2007) and the editor of Fear, Exclusion and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s (2006).
David L. Smith is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. His previous publications include Cromwell and the Interregnum (2003) and, with Graham E. Seel, Crown and Parliaments, 1558-1689 (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: rethinking Royalists and Royalism Jason McElligott and
David L. Smith; 2. A lesson in loyalty: Charles I and the short parliament
Mark A. Kishlansky; 3. The court and the emergence of a Royalist party
Malcolm Smuts; 4. Varieties of Royalism Barbara Donagan; 5. Royalist
reputations: the Cavalier ideal and the reality Ian Roy; 6. Counsel and
cabal in the King's party, 1642-6 David Scott; 7. 'I doe desire to be
rightly vnderstood': rhetorical strategies in the letters of Charles I
Sarah Poynting; 8. Royalists and the new model army in 1647: circumstance,
principle and compromise Rachel Foxley; 9. The Royalist origins of the
separation powers Michael Mendle; 10. 'A No-King, or a New'. Royalists and
the succession, 1648-9 Sean Kelsey; 11. The Royalism of Andrew Marvell
Blair Worden.