The True Law of Free Monarchies

The True Law of Free Monarchies
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Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 0969751265
ISBN-13 : 9780969751267
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis The True Law of Free Monarchies by : James I (King of England)

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 560
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ISBN-10 : 9780008389970
ISBN-13 : 0008389977
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court by : Simon Thurley

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

Stuart Succession Literature

Stuart Succession Literature
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Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9780198778172
ISBN-13 : 0198778171
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Stuart Succession Literature by : Paulina Kewes

Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

After Elizabeth

After Elizabeth
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105120004440
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Synopsis After Elizabeth by : Leanda De Lisle

"Focussing on the intense period of raised hopes and dashed expectations between Christmas 1602 and Christmas 1603, Leanda de Lisle tells in detail the story of Elizabeth's death and how the suffocating conservatism of her rule was replaced with that of the energetic, seemingly fair-minded James." "As James journeys south from Scotland, he is confronted with the extraordinary wealth of his new kingdom, but also with English contempt for his Scots entourage and a stubborn rejection of his hopes for the union of Britain. As the welcome turns sour, those who are disappointed in James turn to intrique and hatch plots against him before the crown is even on his head. Lives are lost and fortunes won in the struggle for power and influence."--BOOK JACKET.

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates

Haydn's Dictionary of Dates
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1004
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HN2Z4L
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Rating : 4/5 (4L Downloads)

Synopsis Haydn's Dictionary of Dates by : Joseph Haydn

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9780192543806
ISBN-13 : 0192543806
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne by : Joseph Hone

Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about Anne's right to the throne were crucial to the construction of nascent party political identities. Literary texts were the principal vehicle through which contemporaries debated the new queen's legitimacy. This book sheds fresh light on canonical authors such as Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Joseph Addison by setting their writing alongside the work of lesser known but nonetheless important figures such as John Tutchin, William Pittis, Nahum Tate, John Dennis, Henry Sacheverell, Charles Leslie, and other anonymous and pseudonymous authors. Through close historical analysis, it shows how this new generation of poets, preachers, and pamphleteers transformed older models of succession writing by Milton, Dryden, and others, and imbued conventional genres such as panegyric and satire with their own distinctive poetics. By immersing the major authors in their milieu, and reconstructing the political and material contexts in which those authors wrote, Literature and Party Politics demonstrates the vitality of debates about royal succession in early eighteenth-century culture.

A Companion to Stuart Britain

A Companion to Stuart Britain
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9780470998892
ISBN-13 : 047099889X
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Stuart Britain by : Barry Coward

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