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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Jacobite"”.
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The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions
… of the deposed House of Stuart, known as Jacobites and composed largely of Highland Scots, staged periodic rebellions against the new Hanoverian rulers in London. During this period, the Highlanders of Scotland experienced a period of military triumph unlike any other in their history. …
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Information and French Support for Jacobite Ireland, 1689-1691
… historiography has viewed French support for the Jacobite war effort in Ireland in the period 1689-1691 largely in terms of military assistance, a small number of scholars have taken a more original view. Their works considered the interaction between the two groups by looking at both French and …
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A War of Words: Jacobitism as a Language of Dissent in England during the Reign of William III, 1688-1702
… popular support, was bloodless, and that the Jacobite movement had little support in England. My thesis explores this topic through deep biographical case studies to highlight the material and interpersonal interconnectedness of those involved in the Jacobite print trade: authors, printers, …
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The Irish Catholic Episcopal Corps, 1657-1829: A Prosopographical Analysis (2 vols)
… and reconstructed the historical profile of the Jacobite episcopal corps and has shown that the Irish episcopate under the penal regime was not only relatively well-organised but was well-engaged in reforming the Irish church, albeit with limited resources. By the mid-eighteenth century, the …
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The Galloway Levellers: a study of the origins, events and consequences of their actions
… is then considered. Local responses to the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 are discussed within this context since there was an anti-Jacobite element within the rhetoric and actions of the Galloway Levellers. From these foundations, and having established a chronology for the events of 1724, much …
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Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719
… III, Anne, and George I, which included the Jacobite movement, the growing body of penal laws, and the double land taxes. Not only did the peerage endure this tumultuous period, but the leadership they provided for their fellow Catholics also contributed to the survival of the Roman Catholic …
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Eucharistic belief and practice in Ireland, 1660-1740
In 1691, after the defeat of Jacobite forces by William III, the foregoing declaration against transubstantiation was included as part of the Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other oaths for all those who wished to enter public office. Just over a decade later, the …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… century largely concerns the suppression of the Jacobite risings and the growing assimilation of Highland soldiers into its ranks during and after the Seven Years War. This thesis seeks to redress this by foregrounding all Scots and their earlier contribution to the British army. It does this by …
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
This dissertation examines Tory High-Church and Jacobite Episcopalian responses to Newton in early eighteenth century England and Scotland, providing a systematic analysis of the relationship between Newtonian natural philosophy, politics and religion from a Tory High-Church perspective. I argue …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… and on Dryden's poetics of conversion and Jacobite nostalgia. Loosening the grip of political chronology on the historical study of literary practice in this way better allows us to discern the overlapping presences of past ages throughout the long seventeenth century and to trace how …
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… of crises, from the English Civil War to the Jacobite risings, in which these exiled communities of women religious contributed to Catholic images of their Protestant-dominated homeland and significantly supported the Stuart cause. After 1750, however, with the decline of Jacobitism, the …
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East India patronage and the political management of Scotland 1720-1774
… at the 1707 'betrayal' was kept simmering by pro-Jacobite sentiments and frustrations due to economic stagnation. To the Whig ministries in London the 1715 rebellion on top of all the other danger signals was alarming. The turmoil in Scotland seemed to threaten the stability and security of the …
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Party conflict and foreign crisis at Cambridge University, 1745 to 1806
… through the lens of foreign crises, from the Jacobite Rising in 1745 to the death of William Pitt the Younger in 1806. Cambridge University has frequently been a partisan and ideological battleground in British political history. The university’s leaders and ideas have been featured in a wide …
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Dunmore's new world: Political culture in the British Empire, 1745--1796
Despite his participation in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, eventually became royal governor of New York (1770-1771), Virginia (17711783), and the Bahama Islands (1787-1796). His life in the British Empire exposed him to an extraordinary range of political …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
In the decades following the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, a group of Scottish jurists, historians, and philosophers turned to history in order to understand the parliamentary monarchy to which Scotland had attached itself in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. In doing so, they stumbled upon the …
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Elite Identities in Scottish Family Group Portraits, 1740 - 1790
… the political affairs of Scotland, be that the Jacobite cause or Enlightenment, will be revealed. The chapter on motherhood will highlight that, while patrons commissioned portraits of sentimental motherhood, old concerns of lineage were deeply embedded within these. The matter of fatherhood is …
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