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Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum
What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell’s Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade of the 1650s (or, ‘the Interregnum’, from the Latin meaning ‘between the reign of the kings’) from the vantage point of those who lost the Civil Wars. It describes how these men and women negotiated the difficult choices they faced: to compromise, collaborate, or resist.

It brings together essays by established and emerging historians and literary scholars in Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia. The essays sketch the difficulties, complexities, and nuances of the Royalist experience during the Commonwealth and Protectorate, looking at women, religion, print-culture, literature, the politics of exile, and the nature and extent of royalist networks in England.

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Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum
What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell’s Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade of the 1650s (or, ‘the Interregnum’, from the Latin meaning ‘between the reign of the kings’) from the vantage point of those who lost the Civil Wars. It describes how these men and women negotiated the difficult choices they faced: to compromise, collaborate, or resist.

It brings together essays by established and emerging historians and literary scholars in Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia. The essays sketch the difficulties, complexities, and nuances of the Royalist experience during the Commonwealth and Protectorate, looking at women, religion, print-culture, literature, the politics of exile, and the nature and extent of royalist networks in England.

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Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum

Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum

Overview

What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later, Cromwell’s Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade of the 1650s (or, ‘the Interregnum’, from the Latin meaning ‘between the reign of the kings’) from the vantage point of those who lost the Civil Wars. It describes how these men and women negotiated the difficult choices they faced: to compromise, collaborate, or resist.

It brings together essays by established and emerging historians and literary scholars in Britain, Europe, the United States and Australia. The essays sketch the difficulties, complexities, and nuances of the Royalist experience during the Commonwealth and Protectorate, looking at women, religion, print-culture, literature, the politics of exile, and the nature and extent of royalist networks in England.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719081613
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 03/31/2010
Series: Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Pages: 267
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jason McElligott is Acting Executive Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. David L. Smith is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Selwyn College, Cambridge

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

Notes on Contributors vii

Preface ix

List of Abbreviations x

1 Introduction: Rethinking Royalists and royalism during the Interregnum Jason McElligott David L. Smith 1

2 Episcopalian conformity and nonconformity, 1646-60 Kenneth Fincham Stephen Taylor 18

3 Seditious speech and popular royalism, 1649-60 Lloyd Bowen 44

4 Artful ambivalence? Picturing Charles I during the Interregnum Helen Pierce 67

5 'Vailing his Crown': Royalist criticism of Charles I's kingship in the 1650s Anthony Milton 88

6 Royalists in exile: the experience of Daniel O'Neill Geoffrey Smith 106

7 Gender, geography and exile: Royalists and the Low Countries in the 1650s Ann Hughes Julie Sanders 128

8 Dramatis Personae: royalism, theatre and the political ontology of the person in post-Regicide writing James Loxley 149

9 Shakespeare for Royalists: John Quarles and The Rape of Lucrece (1655) Marcus Nevitt 171

10 'The honour of this Nation': William Dugdale and the History of St Paul's (1658) Jan Broadway 194

11 Atlantic royalism? Polemic, censorship and the 'Declaration and Protestation of the Governour and Inhabitants of Virginia' Jason McElligott 214

12 The Earl of Southampton and the lessons of Interregnum finance D'Maris Coffman 235

Index 257

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