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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Jacobitism"”.
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A War of Words: Jacobitism as a Language of Dissent in England during the Reign of William III, 1688-1702
This thesis explores how Jacobitism became a significant framework for those opposed to the political settlement following the Glorious Revolution and how this movement functioned as a language of dissent utilized by those opposed to the new Williamite regime. In doing so, this thesis challenges …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… from a common threat from France to include Jacobitism, evidenced by the large-scale presence of Scots of all origins in military service well before William Pitt the Elder boasted of ‘harnessing’ the military resources of the Highlands in 1762.
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Engaging nuns: Exiled english convents and the politics of exclusion, 1590-1829
… cause. After 1750, however, with the decline of Jacobitism, the exiled convents played their part in turn in reconfiguring English Protestant images of the Catholic threat, a process that paved the way for the return of most of these communities in flight from the Jacobins of the French …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… This antagonism took a new form in Halkett’s Jacobitism after the Revolution of 1688-89. The violent turn of events in Scotland only served to confirm her commitment to the church-and-king loyalism associated with James VII, despite the actual policies of his reign. In the 1690s as much as in …
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The origins and transformation of the nonjuror schism, 1670-1715 : illustrated by special reference to the career, writings and activities of Dr. George Hickes, 1642-1715
… position in ecclesiastical matters as well as Jacobitism. He finally opposed Henry Dodwell's return to the established church in 1710 and established his own leadership of the diehard rump of nonjurors and secured further episcopal consecrations to ensure the continuance of the nonjuror schism.
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Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719
<p>Historians have traditionally viewed the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as periods of decline for the European nobility and the English Roman Catholic community. Scholars over the last thirty-five years, however, have successfully called into question these long held assumptions by showing …