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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Restoration England"”.
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Using globes and celestial planispheres in restoration England.
… by the user. I show that this is the case in Restoration England, through a consideration of instruments produced at the time alongside the texts on their use, also providing an insight into the individuals who participated in the cartographic enterprise at many different levels. A brief …
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The church courts in Restoration England, 1660–c. 1689
… Soon thereafter, parishioners across England’s dioceses once more faced admonition, fines, excommunication, and even imprisonment if they failed to conform to the laws of the restored Church of England. Whether they were successful or not in maintaining orthodoxy has been the principal …
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The orchestral anthem in England, 1700-1775
… development of the verse anthem with strings in Restoration England has been thoroughly researched by many people, and such compositions by Henry Purcell, John Blow, Pelham Humphrey and others are well known. However, large-scale anthems with orchestral accompaniment continued to be written and …
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The art of rank: a revaluation of John Dryden's satires
… the intellectual and social environment of Restoration England, and also the conservative ideology of Dryden, for his purge metaphor constitutes a defense of the King's control, despite the burlesque elements. Furthermore, despite the iconoclastic appearance of this reading, Dryden …
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Treason, passion and power in England, 1660 – 1685.
General rejoicing greeted the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne in 1660; however the twenty-five year reign of the “merry monarch” was to become one characterised by division and dissent. This thesis analyses the passions of the period, which, although hitherto underexplored by …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
… within the specific circumstances of post-Restoration England, as the unique pressures engendered by the Interregnum impelled many Dissenting writers to privilege "Practical Religion" over abstract theology. The aversion to "doubtfull disputations" that Defoe inherits from this discourse …
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
… accounts in the service of their own post-restoration agendas. By analysing how Featley’s own ‘chameleon-like’ tendencies contributed to his later biographers’ distorted perception of him, this final chapter returns to the major methodological issues this thesis seeks to address. In short, …