The Stuart Court and Europe: Essays in Politics and Political Culture

ISBN-13: 9780521554398 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 308 str.

Malcolm Smuts; R. Malcolm Smuts

Opis

This interdisciplinary collection stresses the cosmopolitan nature of society, politics and culture at the Stuart court, and the importance of this cosmopolitanism in shaping political life and culture well beyond the court itself. The essays deal with the actual operation of the court, politics, and the systems of cultural meaning in which political life was embedded. Also included are a provocative overview of the whole period by Jonathan Scott, and a concluding chapter by Geoffrey Parker that suggests several new avenues for placing the British Isles within a European perspective.

Recenzje

"This has interdisciplinary dimensions and will be of interest to many students of the period, political as well as cultural." Frank T. Melton, Canadian Journal of History

Spis treści

1. Introduction R. Malcolm Smuts; 2. England's troubles, 1603–1702 Jonathan Scott; 3. The ancient constitution reassessed: the common law, the court and the languages of politics in early modern England Johann Sommerville; 4. The invention of Britain and the early Stuart masque Martin Butler; 5. Art and the material culture of kingship in early Stuart England R. Malcolm Smuts; 6. The Hector of Germanie, or the Palsgrave, Prime Elector and Anglo-German relations of early Stuart England: the view from the popular stage Hans Werner; 7. Old English honour in an evil time: aristocratic privilege in the 1620s Richard C. McCoy; 8. The theatre of dynasty Caroline Hibbard; 9. French philosophy and English politics in interregnum poetry Charles Kay Smith; 10. 'Crouching at home and cruel while abroad': Restoration constructions of national and international character Annabel Patterson; 11. The religion of Charles II Ronald Hutton; 12. The duchess of Portsmouth: English royal consort and French politician Nancy Maguire; 13. The world beyond Whitehall Geoffrey Parker.