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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Charles I"”.
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Ship money during the personal rule of Charles I : politics, ideology and the law 1634-1640.
… ideology and the law during the Personal Rule of Charles I. The work is divided into five chapters, with an Introduction and a Conclusion. The first chapter traces the origins of ship money, places it in the context of the government's foreign arid domestic concerns, and analyses the first writ of …
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The chapel and the chamber: ceremonial dining and religious ritual at the court of King Charles I
… with ceremonial dining at the court of King Charles I of England (b.1600 – d.1649). Employing archival sources that have heretofore been underutilized by historians of seventeenth-century England, this study reconstructs the king’s dining ceremonies and situates them within the broader …
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The impact of the regicide of Charles I on contemporary English notions of time and the future
This thesis focuses on the execution of King Charles I of England on 30 January 1648/9. It seeks to investigate and document the impact of the event on the English, specifically its effect on contemporary senses of time. Charles was a king put on trial and executed by members of his own Parliament. …
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The origin and organization of the covenanting movement during the reign of Charles I, 1625-41: with a particular reference to the West of Scotland
… the issue which precipitated the termination of Charles I's thirteen year personal rule, the Scots were collectively reacting against innovatory policies conceived at Court, policies intent on the fundamental restructuring of Scottish government and society as well as the implementation of …
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Thou Shall Not Suffer a Witch to Live: A History of Witchcraft in Scotland During the Reigns of James VI and Charles I, 1563-1649
Since the beginning of time, man has believed in forces possessing far greater powers than he, forces which could control his life either for his benefit or for his destruction. These forces soon took on names but were eventually generally classified as either gods, forces for good, or devils …
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The Character and Military Abilities of the First Duke of Buckingham
… is the Court Favourite of Kings James I and Charles I of England, George Villiers, the First Duke of Buckingham. Though he was the most powerful figure in England during the period from 1624 to 1628, perhaps his role in shaping the history of the English nation in the seventeenth century has …
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The experience of discipline in parish communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1638 - 1651
… to the unpopular religious innovations of Charles I, the Covenanters, Scotland’s leading Presbyterian divines, enforced a programme of moral reform that was intended to re-shape the lives of every member of society. This thesis is a bottom-up history of their attempts at religious …
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The Administration of Spain Under Charles V, Spain's New Charlemagne
Charles I, King of Spain, or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, was the most powerful ruler in Europe since Charlemagne. With a Germanic background, and speaking French, Charles became King of Spain in 1516. Yet secondary sources and available sixteenth century Spanish sources such as Spanish Royal …
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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… a means of counsel, or advice, to the King Charles I in an elaborate poetic format.
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John Milton: A Cause Without a Rebel
… he describes the uprising against King Charles I by disassociating it from any kind of rebellion, instead determining that the uprising was done lawfully. Milton writes about rebellion in the same way in many of his works leading up to and including Paradise Lost, where Satan resembles …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… colonization to support Parliament’s war against Charles I, their ventures in the Indian and Atlantic oceans resonated in the halls of Westminster and the chambers of state finance. In the crucible of civil war, they forged a fiscal-military state that would form the basis of a future British …
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A study of early Caroline lyric verse with special attention to that of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick
… of secular lyrics written during the reign of Charles I, and often slighted since, is surveyed. Special attention is directed to the work of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick. First the historical background of the period, with its social and political tensions, is examined. The court is seen as …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… Elizabeth's court but the courts of James I and Charles I. Such poems on affairs of state, or libels, include: epitaphs for Elizabeth; attacks on the earl and countess of Somerset, the Jacobean royal favorite and noble Catholic woman who were found guilty of murdering Sir Thomas Overbury; poems …
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'The grave and solemn Earl' : a political study of John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassillis during the Covenanting movement, 1637-1651
… viewed as a reaction to the absentee monarchy of Charles I and his liturgical innovations designed to bring Scotland into religious uniformity with England. The Covenanters asserted their right to uphold Presbyterian church governance and rebelled against the monarch. John Kennedy, sixth Earl of …
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Aristocratic Women of the Household and Court of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1625-1659
… figure from the start of her marriage with Charles I in 1625, re-evaluating, therefore, domestic and foreign policy up until the outbreak of the Anglo-French war of 1627-1629. The traditional understanding of Henrietta Maria’s court as solely Catholic is reassessed in light of new evidence …
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The Brooks Act, is it relevant today?
This paper analyzes the long term effect of Congressional legislation and how it affects the acquisition process. Understanding the basics behind the Brooks Act and how the environment surrounding information technology (IT) acquisitions has changed, is necessary to make an evaluation of how this …
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The Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota
<p>This paper is a discussion of the surface stratigraphy and petrology of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota and eastern Montana. Principal area of study included the Missouri Valley south of Bismarck, North Dakota; the Little Missouri Valley in Slope and Bowman Counties, southwestern North …
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