Download or read book The Royal Stuarts written by Allan Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.
Download or read book Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts written by Vaughan Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
Download or read book Dynasty written by John Macleod and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an irreverent take on the royal family that united Great Britain, chronicling the trials and triumphs of a dynasty that oversaw the rise of English Protestantism and the evolution of modern British democracy.
Download or read book England Under the Stuarts written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by London : Methuen. This book was released on 1911 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horrible Histories Slimy Stuarts New Edition written by Terry Deary and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I bet you've never even heard of the Stuarts. They don't sound very terrible, do they? But did you know some slimy Stuarts ate toads, snails and fleas?
Download or read book Palaces of Revolution Life Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.
Download or read book Stuart Succession Literature written by Paulina Kewes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.
Download or read book The Stuarts in Italy 1719 1766 written by Edward T. Corp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses the lives of the exiled Stuart Court in Italy which provided an important British presence in Rome.
Download or read book The Stuarts written by John Miller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Miller's book explains all there is to know about the Stuarts, their ruling ethos and their legacy. >
Download or read book The Descendants of the Stuarts written by William Townend and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stuarts Last Secret written by Peter Pininski and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2002 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work rewrites the final chapter in the history of the last Stuarts. It provides documentary evidence, previously unknown, which uncovers the fate of Prince Charles Edward's three grandchildren - the secret family of his daughter, Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany. Having discovered his private papers, Professor George Sherburn published a biography of Charlotte's son in 1960. But as James Lees-Milne wrote in 1983, nothing is known about the two daughters. Thus in 1996 John MacLeod claimed Charlotte's son was the last of the line by blood. In discovering the lives of the two daughters the author reveals that one had a son whose descendants survive to this day. The book is the untold story of the Stuart bloodline from the Old Pretender and Princess Clementina Sobieska - described by Professor Bruce Lenman as a vast and exciting panorama laid out over a grand sweep of time in a work whose scholarship is deliberately unobtrusive, but very extensive.
Download or read book The Early Stuarts 1603 1660 written by Godfrey Davies and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England Under the Stuarts written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book England Under the Stuarts written by George Macaulay Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogical and Historical Sketch of the Stuarts of the House of Castlestuart in Ireland written by Andrew Godfrey STUART (Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Under the Stuarts 1607 1688 written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 1914 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts written by Pat Rogers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical new look at the literary and political climate of England during the reign of Queen Anne examines the work of the greatest poet of the age, Alexander Pope. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts provides the fullest contextual account to date of Windsor-Forest (1713), widely seen as a key text in the evolution of early eighteenth-century poetry. It examines the poem's topical and political aspects and offers a reconfiguration of Pope's early career, demonstrating that this was a pivotal period, marking a critical watershed in both his personal and literary development. The book gives a complete account of Pope's life and work in his early twenties, and supplies a new political interpretation, including a careful analysis of possible Jacobite colourings. Attention is directed towards a range of literary, historical, ideological, and artistic issues. The book draws on classical studies (the role of Virgil and Ovid especially), Renaissance scholarship, literary history, political history, and artistic contexts. The key ideas and techniques of Windsor-Forest are related to Pope's other early works, including the Pastorals and, centrally, The Rape of the Lock. Rogers goes on to reassess the poet's dealings with the Scriblerus group. He shows previously unnoted textual connections with the work of Swift, Gay, Parnell, and also Prior, and casts fresh light on the tortuous process of composition and revision of Windsor-Forest, with a description of the manuscript and an account of the publishing and textual history, while numerous allusions are traced for the first time. Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts will be of interest to scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, history, and politics.
