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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"English Civil War"”.
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The construction and use of gender in the pamphlet literature of the English Civil War, 1642-1646
… framework for political ends during the first Civil War. In particular it considers how both the royalist and parliamentarian pamphleteers constructed and promoted a hegemonic, patriarchal definition of manhood amongst their male supporters in order to encourage them to fight for either king or …
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Doubting Thomas: A Study of Thomas Hobbes's Post-Restoration Dialogues
… of the commonwealth. His knowledge of the English Civil War and the peace that followed may have been instrumental in reorienting Hobbes towards a more pragmatic and realistic philosophy that recognized the limits of science to create stability in the political arena. The Hobbes of the …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… of French cultural fashions on to the English stage (most notably the innovation of the female actor), and investigate notions of female identity put forward in her masques and pastoral plays. By tracing the influences of both neoplatonism and reformed Catholic theology in the Queen's …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
This thesis addresses the communities of English women religious founded after the Reformation on the other side of the Channel from a new perspective. In echoes of contemporary Protestant propaganda, debates about nuns remain too often framed by a discourse around themes such as passivity or the …
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The evolution of Puritan mentality in an Essex cloth town : Dedham and the Stour Valley, 1560-1640.
… opinion which culminated in the outbreak of the English Civil War. The Conclusion attempts to integrate the topics examined in these sections and to show how, despite the rigour and exclusiveness which characterized the rhetoric of the preachers, Puritanism in Dedham tended to foster social …
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Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature
<p>Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature</p> <p>Over the past several decades, material culture scholars working within the “Long 18<sup>th</sup> Century” have identified how the figure of the woman consumer became an ideological nodal point that registered new …
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Early modern masters of suspicion
… should be reconsidered in the midst of the English Civil War. He emphasised the necessity, like Montaigne, of a more personal “realm” where he could study himself and the changes of his time. Like Bacon, Milton believed that the epistemological obstacles of dogmatic Aristotelianism had to be …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and political discourse, this dissertation …
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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… in the years immediately prior to and during the English Civil War, which were (re)written and (re)performed at the Restoration of the English monarchy in the 1660s. The “cross-over” comedies have been dismissed as leftovers from the last days of the playhouses before their closure in 1642, their …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… to figure prominently in the events of the English Civil War and Interregnum. Chapter One describes the territorial possessions, historic role and national influence of the Campbells and places Argyll within his familial heritage. Chapter Two describes his dispute with his half-brother over …
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King Campbell : the public career of the Marquis of Argyll (1607?-1661)
… to figure prominently in the events of the English Civil War and Interregnum. Chapter One describes the territorial possessions, historic role and national influence of the Campbells and places Argyll within his familial heritage. Chapter Two describes his dispute with his half-brother over …
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The Politics of Belief in Hume and Enlightenment Scepticism
… theory of causation. Finally, his account of the English Civil War attested that superstition and enthusiasm were the consequences of acting upon unjustifiable belief. The ethics of belief enabled Hume to defend the ‘true philosophy’ that guaranteed secure opinions. It also obliged us to follow …
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Coinage Crimes and Society in England During the Period of the British Republic, 1649-1660
… and adverse climatic changes, during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s. A key area of the study will show that coinage, and the protection of it, became an important part of the Republic’s state formation process. That is through the redefinition of it as a crime against the people of …
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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654
… than the likes of Grotius or the lawyer Edward Coke. What were matters of mere historical curiosity for many, therefore, were of vital political importance to Selden. Part two will explore how this peculiar political outlook produced a peculiar form of political argument; how a number of …
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Les voies/voix radicales en Angleterre, 1789-1848
… It referred to the Levellers and the English Civil War, it brought back a period of history which was felt as a traumatic experience. Its stigmas were still vivid in the mind of the political leaders of these times. The reign of Cromwell was certainly the main reason for the general …
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
… to reshape perceptions and management of English wetlands. Drawing on the analytic perspectives of environmental history, this thesis explores divergent ideas and practices generating conflict over the making of private property, reorganisation of flow, and reconfiguration of lived …