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Charles I and the People of England /
The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy mines the widest range of archival and printed sources, including ballads, sermons, speeches, letters, diaries, petitions, proclamations, and the proceedings of secular and ecclesiastical cour...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press USA,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Charles I and the People of England; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; Prologue; Introduction; An Incomplete Narrative; Whatś Missing?; Chapter1. The Commonwealth of England; Chapter2. The Oath of a King; Chapter3. Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection; Chapter4. Unprosperous Wars; Chapter5. An Accessible Monarch?; Chapter6. Importunate Petitioners; Chapter7. The King's Religion and the Peopleś Church; Chapter8. The Kingś Declaration and the Peopleś Sports; Chapter9. Sacred Kingship Eclipsed; Chapter10. The Blindness of Charles I; 1: The Commonwealth of England.
- A Blessèd RealmAristocrats and Gentlemen; Ordinary People; An Ordered Society; Weak Women; Wanderers; A Balance Disturbed; Refractory Disorders; A Wider World; A Cold Country; 2: The Oath of a King; A Royal Ritual; A Contested Oath; 3: Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection; Excellent Tokens; Royal Majesty; Prerogative Power; Ship Money and the Safety of the Kingdom; Material Demands; Dishonourable Discourse; Accumulated Frictions; 4: Unprosperous Wars; Wars of Christendom; Men at Arms; Burdensome Billeting; Distressed Mariners; The Perils of Peace; 5: An Accessible Monarch?
- The People's GazeThe Pulse of the Court; The King on the Road; 6: Importunate Petitioners; Aristocrats and Intermediaries; A Mathematical Petitioner; Disorderly Petitioning; Urgent Messages; Warning Libels; An Affable King; 7: The Kingś Religion and the Peopleś Church; A Christian Monarch; A Papist in his Heart?; The Kingś Catholics; Ceremonialism and its Discontents; Puritan Misdemeanours; Godś Ambassadors; Godś People; Sabbath Offences; Accumulated Tensions; 8: The Kingś Declaration and the Peopleś Sports; The Discipline of the Sabbath; The Kingś Declaration; To Read or Not to Read.
- Salves to ConscienceContested Sports; Reversal; 9: Sacred Kingship Eclipsed; Mutiny in Scotland; King Charlesś Northern Wars; Trampling on Majesty; Constitutional Contention; Railing Venom; The Royal Touch; 10: The Blindness of Charles I; Impaired Vision; Notes; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter1; Chapter2; Chapter3; Chapter4; Chapter5; Chapter6; Chapter7; Chapter8; Chapter9; Chapter10; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives, London; Bodleian Library, Oxford; Borthwick Institute, York; Bristol Record Office, Bristol; British Library, London.
- Cambridge University Library, CambridgeCambridgeshire Record Office, Cambridge; Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury; Cheshire Record Office, Chester; Devon Record Office, Exeter; Dorset History Centre, Dorchester; Downing College, Cambridge; Durham Cathedral Library and Archives, Durham; Durham University Library, Durham; East Sussex Record Office, Lewes; Essex Record Office, Chelmsford; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington; Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester; Guildhall Library, London (transferred to London Metropolitan Archives); Hammersmith and Fulham Archives, Hammersmith.