Sir David Nairne: The Life of a Scottish Jacobite at the Court of the Exiled Stuarts

ISBN-13: 9781787079342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 520 str.

Edward Corp

Opis

This new and original biography will restore to prominence one of the key figures in Jacobite history. For nearly forty years David Nairne was actively involved in the administration of Jacobite politics. He enjoyed particularly close relations for most of the period with the Stuart Kings James II and III.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Nairne's Unique Position at the Court and in Jacobite Historiography - The Making of a Jacobite: From Scotland to France and Ireland, 1655-1689 - Chief Clerk at Rome and Saint-Germain, 1689-1701 - An Ex-Patriate at the Exiled Court, 1691-1708 - Clerk of the King's Council and Under-Secretary at Saint-Germain, 1701-1713 - Secretary of the King's Closet in Lorraine, Avignon and the Papal States, 1713-1717 - Personal Disappointments and Family Problems, 1717-1719 - Jacobite Minister at Rome, 1718-1719 - Under-Secretary at Rome and Bologna, 1719-1729 - Retirement at Rome and Paris, 1729-1740 - A Jacobite Legacy - The Nairne Papers

O autorze

Edward Corp lives in France, and is now retired. He was Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He has published extensively on the exiled Stuarts, including a three-volume history of the Stuart court in exile. He has also curated two major exhibitions on the Stuarts in exile, at the Château-Vieux de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.