The Regicides and the Execution of Charles 1

by J. Peacey

Overview

The events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and contemporary responses and reactions. These essays submit one of the most momentous events in English history to rigorous scholarship, contextualise it in the light of recent historiography, not least regarding relations between the three kingdoms of Britain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333802595
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/02/2001
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

JOHN ADAMSON Fellow in History, Peterhouse, Cambridge PHILIP BAKER Research Editor, New Dictionary of National Biography SARAH BARBER Lecturer in History, Lancaster University RICHARD BONNEY Professor of Modern History, University of Leicester SEAN KELSEY Lecturer and Author ANDREW LACEY Librarian at Trinity Hall, Cambridge JOHN MORRILL Professor of British and Irish History, Cambridge University D.ALAN ORR Lecturer and Author DAVID SCOTT Senior Research Fellow, History of Parliament, London ANDREW SHARP Professor of Political Studies, University of Auckland ELLIOT VERNON Barrister.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; J.Peacey Oliver Cromwell, the Regicide and the Sons of Zeruiah; J.Morrill & P.Baker The Frighted Junto: Perceptions of Ireland, and the Last Attempts at Settlement with Charles I; J.Adamson Staging the Trial of Charles I; S.Kelsey Belshazzar's Feast: Regicide, Republicanism and the Metaphor of Balance; S.Barber The Juristic Foundation of Regicide; D.Alan Orr Motives for King-Killing; D.Scott Reporting a Revolution: A Failed Propaganda Campaign; J.Peacey The Levellers and the End of Charles I; A.Sharp The Quarrel of the Covenant: The London Presbyterians and the Regicide; E.Vernon Elegies and Commemorative Verse in Honour of Charles the Martyr, 1649-1660; A.Lacey The European Reaction to the Trial and Execution of Charles I; R.Bonney Index