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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Royalist"”.
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Sublimating the Singularity of an Author(ity): Textual Publics, Textual Agency, and a Case Study of "Eikon Basilike" (1649-1660)
… publication of his book, "Eikon Basilike"; and royalist textual responses to these events during the English Interregnum (1648/9–1660/1). I argue that "Eikon Basilike"—Charles I’s textual agent—was fetishized and sublimated with the king’s singularity, which enabled royalists to transfer his …
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
… languages of political legitimacy advanced by royalist and Covenanter leaders during the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651). During King Charles I’s reign, Scottish Presbyterians faced a Protestant king who attempted to secure supremacy over the kirk by imposing ‘popish’ Episcopalian reforms. …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
… approaches to explore the legal framework that royalist, parliamentarian, and covenanter garrisons operated under, their relationship with civic authorities such as civic corporations, and the relationship between governorships and the concept of lordship. This section is particularly important …
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The construction and use of gender in the pamphlet literature of the English Civil War, 1642-1646
… 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 parliament. It also demonstrates how the …
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A 17th century “real estate company“ : The 1649 officers and the Irish land settlements, 1641-1631.
… of army pay they had incurred fighting for the royalist cause during the 1641-52 war. There is a definate need for such an identification because to date many historians have incorrectly ascribed the title of 1649 (or '49) officer to all those officers who served in Ireland, on either the king's …
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Forbidden Fruit: Dryden's The State of Innocence And Fall of Man, An Operatic Version of Paradise Lost
… during childhood, followed by influences from a royalist schoolmaster in his teenage years, makes the answer to the question somewhat more complex, as does the fact that the play, its source a Puritan epic adapted by an Anglican royalist poet, is dedicated to the Catholic bride of James, Duke of …
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Secret Wars
… an English journalist; Mathieu Levesque, a Royalist navy-captain; Manu de Vallier, a French woman; Marie Holmwood, an English woman and Willace’s unwilling love-interest; and M. de Vallier, a Royalist aristocrat. Also prominent is Vice-Admiral Villeneuve, a real historical figure who often …
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Various forms of colonialism : the social and spatial reorganisation of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
… French, Japanese, Vietnamese, Americans, Lao (royalist and communist), Khmer (royalist and communist), and the present-day Lao and Cambodian governments working together with international development agencies. These various groups, including those typically considered to be precolonial and …
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'Lawrels for the Conquered' : the dilemmas of William Davenant and Abraham Cowley in the revolutionary decades of the seventeenth century.
… vacillated between the desire to remain in the royalist literary underground and the temptation to collaborate with the godly authorities. It analyses their work in terms of these twin forces and attempts to assess how far they continued to make 'Lawrels for the Conquered, as Cowley described …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
… security and military power: internally from Royalist conspiracies and political dissidence, and externally from the danger of a combined Royalist and foreign invasion. The Eastern Counties were of strategic importance to Interregnum governments because of their proximity to London and the …
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The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond
… and was at the center of a cycle of Colonial Royalist mansions. After the American Revolution, however, the house quickly became a symbol of American patriotism. Occupants ranging from General George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow each added to the legacy of the house. Early in the …
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Nourishing the political body: Banquets in early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914
… the Revolution of 1848, socialists/anarchists, royalists, imperialists, and feminists turned to the banquet to strengthen their political agendas during early Third Republic France. In Nourishing the Political Body: Banquets in Early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914, I argue that banquets …
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Politics and Hermeneutics in the Meditations of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1651-1699
… everyday political thought by an English-born, royalist gentlewoman settled in Restoration Scotland. It assembles and compares passages from across the collection on such themes as the duty of honouring one’s natural, civil, and spiritual fathers, the importance and efficacy of prayer for the …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… celebrate the return of Charles II through the Royalist oak and the tropical orange, employing both trees as symbols of a British landscape that praises the monarch by welcoming exotic flora from across the globe. Chapter 2 tracks the ways in which exotic flora represent the masculine aesthetic …
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Luxury Romanticism: The Quarto Book in the Romantic Period
… anxieties of influence or declare his newly Royalist political alliance but that it also succeeded in classing the poem's aesthetic ideology for many Regency readers. Chapter 5 investigates the quarto's role in stoking British fears about oriental luxury: by showing how the reception of …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
… of the Mazarin salon, beginning with the Royalist exile in Paris in the 1650s that set the foundations for Anglo-French friendships and collaborations, which are then reinforced with the resettling of numerous French exiles in London from the 1660s onwards. Chapter Two turns to the salon's …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
… exploits her position as noblewoman and royalist exile to praise the virtues of the contemplative life, she also insists on publication as a fitting proof of virtue for male and female authors alike. Behn, whose detractors used her writing for hire as evidence of her moral and sexual …
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The Martyr as Model in John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
… been described as propagandist, nationalist, royalist, or any number of other monikers. These do not adequately describe, and some even distort, the true context and intent of Foxe and his work. Striking by their absence are modern scholarly assessments of Foxe’s work in light of what he held …
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