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After the Restoration, parliamentarians continued to identify with the decisions to oppose and resist crown and established church. This was despite the fact that expressing such views between 1660 and 1688 was to open oneself to charges of sedition or treason. This book uses approaches from the field of memory studies to examine 'seditious memories' in seventeenth-century Britain, asking why people were prepared to take the risk of voicing them in public. It argues that such activities were more than a manifestation of discontent or radicalism -- they also provided a way of countering experiences of defeat. Besides speech and writing, parliamentarian and republican views are shown to have manifested as misbehaviour during official commemorations of the civil wars and republic. The book also considers how such views were passed on from the generation of men and women who experienced civil war and revolution to their children and grandchildren.

Sedition --- History --- Great Britain --- Public opinion. --- Britain. --- Charles II. --- Civil War. --- Commemoration. --- Interregnum. --- James II. --- Memory. --- Radicalism. --- Republic. --- Republicanism. --- Restoration.

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Despite the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a kingless republic, the period of the English Civil Wars and their aftermath is rarely described as one of constitutional revolution. The notion that the 1650s were politically conservative is exemplified by the tendency of historians to fixate upon the offer of kingship to Oliver Cromwell and his increasingly monarchical appearance. This book rethinks the political history of the 1640s and 1650s by focusing instead upon the upper parliamentary chamber. Besides exploring changing attitudes towards the House of Lords during the Civil Wars, and the circumstances that led to its abolition in 1649, it provides the first thorough study of the Cromwellian "Other House" - a new upper parliamentary chamber of nominated life peers created in 1657. Jonathan Fizgibbons demonstrates how the Other House was much more integral to Cromwell's aims for a lasting post-war settlement than the offer of the Crown. More broadly, this book reconceptualises the political and constitutional history of the 1640s and 1650s by looking beyond outward forms of government and visual culture. It argues that radical shifts in political thought were concealed by apparent continuities in forms of government. Even though the new Cromwellian upper chamber had the familiar appearance of a House of Lords, the very meaning of the House of Lords was contested and transformed by the experience of the Civil Wars and their aftermath.

Politics and government. --- Great Britain. --- History. --- 1642-1660. --- Great Britain --- History --- Politics and government --- Cromwell, Oliver --- 1642-1660 --- England and Wales. --- HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century. --- Civil Wars. --- Cromwellian Protectorate. --- House of Lords. --- Interregnum. --- constitutional changes. --- constitutional revolution. --- government. --- political history.

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What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage-the duel between Hamlet and Laertes that leaves nearly everyone dead or the ghastly meal of human remains served at the end of Titus Andronicus-emphasize arresting acts of revenge that upset the social order. Yet the subsequent critical focus on a narrow selection of often bloody "revenge plays" has overshadowed subtler and less spectacular modes of vengeance present in early modern culture.In Civil Vengeance, Emily L. King offers a new way of understanding early modern revenge in relation to civility and community. Rather than relegating vengeance to the social periphery, she uncovers how facets of society-church, law, and education-relied on the dynamic of retribution to augment their power such that revenge emerges as an extension of civility. To revise the lineage of revenge literature in early modern England, King rereads familiar revenge tragedies (including Marston's Antonio's Revenge and Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy) alongside a new archive that includes conduct manuals, legal and political documents, and sermons. Shifting attention from episodic revenge to "idian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by which retaliation informs identity formation, interpersonal relationships, and the construction of the social body.

Drama --- Thematology --- English literature --- drama [literature] --- theme --- plays [performed works] --- anno 1500-1599 --- England --- Revenge --- Civil society in literature. --- Revenge in literature. --- English drama --- Vengeance --- Retribution --- Social aspects --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Shakespeare, Renaissance, England, violence, revenge tragedy, conduct books, Interregnum. --- drama [discipline] --- plays [performing arts compositions] --- kunst en literatuur

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The Protectorate is arguably the Cinderella of Interregnum studies: it lacks the immediate drama of the Regicide, the Republic or the Restoration, and is often dismissed as a 'retreat from revolution', a short period of conservative rule before the inevitable return of the Stuarts. The essays in this volume present new research that challenges this view. They argue instead that the Protectorate was dynamic and progressive, even if the policies put forward were not always successful, and often created further tensions within the government and between Whitehall and the localities. Particular topics include studies of Oliver Cromwell and his relationship with Parliament, and the awkward position inherited by his son, Richard; the role of art and architecture in creating a splendid protectoral court; and the important part played by the council, as a law-making body, as a political cockpit, and as part of a hierarchy of government covering not just England but also Ireland and Scotland. There are also investigations of the reactions to Cromwellian rule in Wales, in the towns and cities of the Severn/Avon basin, and in the local communities of England faced with a far-reaching programme of religious reform. PATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust. Contributors: BARRY COWARD, DAVID L. SMITH, JASON PEACEY, PAUL HUNNEYBALL, BLAIR WORDEN, PETER GAUNT, LLOYD BOWEN, STEPHEN K. ROBERTS, CHRISTOPHER DURSTON.

Cromwell, Oliver, --- Great Britain --- History --- Politics and government --- Cromwell, Oliver --- Cromwel, Oliver --- HISTORY / Modern / General. --- History of Parliament Trust. --- Interregnum studies. --- Oliver Cromwell. --- PATRICK LITTLE. --- Protectorate. --- Richard Cromwell. --- Severn/Avon basin. --- Stuarts. --- Wales. --- architecture. --- art. --- conservative rule. --- council. --- law-making body. --- religious reform.

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The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development. Hendrik Spruyt argues that there was nothing inevitable about the rise of the state system, however. Examining the competing institutions that arose during the decline of feudalism--among them urban leagues, independent communes, city states, and sovereign monarchies--Spruyt disposes of the familiar claim that the superior size and war-making ability of the sovereign nation-state made it the natural successor to the feudal system. The author argues that feudalism did not give way to any single successor institution in simple linear fashion. Instead, individuals created a variety of institutional forms, such as the sovereign, territorial state in France, the Hanseatic League, and the Italian city-states, in reaction to a dramatic change in the medieval economic environment. Only in a subsequent selective phase of institutional evolution did sovereign, territorial authority prove to have significant institutional advantages over its rivals. Sovereign authority proved to be more successful in organizing domestic society and structuring external affairs. Spruyt's interdisciplinary approach not only has important implications for change in the state system in our time, but also presents a novel analysis of the general dynamics of institutional change.

Europas historie. --- Statskundskab. --- Statsteori. --- Sovereignty --- History. --- Europe. --- Europe --- Politics and government. --- Bean, Richard. --- Carolingian Empire. --- Florence. --- Genoa. --- Guelph. --- Hamburg. --- Hohenstaufen. --- Interregnum. --- Kontor. --- North, Douglass. --- Otto III. --- Podesta. --- Rice, Eugene. --- Roman law. --- Signoria. --- Teutonic Order. --- Valois Dynasty. --- Venice. --- Waltz, Kenneth. --- Welf. --- Zupko, Ronald. --- canon law. --- diachronic comparison. --- elective affinity. --- methodology. --- neorealism. --- path dependency. --- provost. --- self-help. --- stem duchies.