Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.
To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser.
The nightmare came true in 1672, the year preceding the publication of the Test Act. King Charles declared war upon the United Provinces, ignoring and breaking the alliance which was declared earlier by the Parliament. Also, as to somehow respond to Louis’ call for toleration and the emancipation of the Catholics in the Netherlands, Charles declared toleration for dissidents in his own kingdom. He explained that fact, that he must calm Calvinist dissidents in time of war with United
In this thesis, the author contends that the English Civil War and subsequent regicide of Charles I were first and foremost the product of three conditions. The first of these was Henry VIII’s break from Rome. Second, Charles’ flawed personality manifested itself in the form of duplicity and intransigence. Finally, Charles failed to conform himself to the understood character of divine kingship during the period of his reign.
2010 •
2013 •
Ce travail de recherche explore le role de la personnalite de Jacques II dans son insucces en tant que roi en Angleterre en 1688 et en Irlande en 1690. Il a pour objectif de montrer que son echec dans les deux pays n'est pas uniquement le resultat de situations religieuse, politique et economique tres complexes qui sont destabilisees a l'arrivee d'un roi catholique sur le trone, mais aussi le resultat d'une personnalite inapte aux fonctions royales. Dans un premier temps, nous avons analyse le contexte religieux, politique et economique dans lequel s'inscrit le debut du regne de Jacques II en 1685. Notre objectif etait de comprendre la nature des enjeux et des tensions dans les deux pays avant son arrivee au pouvoir pour determiner a quel point sa gouvernance etait vouee, ou non, a un echec. Malgre l'existence de nombreux facteurs indeniablement defavorables, la presence d'elements tout aussi importants permettant de stabiliser et meme de renforcer son au…
This thesis examines Edmund Spenser’s role as part of a group of English Protestants led by the earl of Leicester who pushed for greater English support for Protestant rebels in France and the Low Countries and opposed the negotiations for a marriage between Elizabeth I and the duc d’Anjou. It will analyse his poems Prosopopoia and The shepheardes calendar in their context as part of Leicester’s propaganda campaign against the match, and show how Spenser’s views were part of wider ‘forward Protestant’ opinion in Elizabethan England. In doing so it will combine textual analysis with an examination of the political and religious context in which the poems were written, showing how Spenser combined anti-marriage sentiment and Protestant theology to use traditional poetic forms for political purposes. It will also briefly discuss the influence that both Spenser’s poetry and the success of the opposition to the match had on the remainder of Elizabeth’s reign.
Often decried as antiquated and outdated, George Herbert is rather a worthy teacher for anyone aspiring to be a minister or pastor, even a pastor’s wife. This paper explores Herbert’s life, struggles, choices, the world he lived in and the extraordinary mark he left behind.
Loading Preview
Sorry, preview is currently unavailable. You can download the paper by clicking the button above.
Historical Research
Henry Neville and the toleration of Catholics during the Exclusion Crisis, Historical Research, 83 (2010).
Political discourse in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland
‘Firm Catholics’ or ‘Loyal Subjects’? Religious and Political Allegiance in Early Seventeenth-century Ireland
2001 •
2011 •
2012 •
Historical Research
Protestation, Vow, Covenant and Engagement: Swearing Allegiance In the English Civil War
2002 •
2018 •
Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
Pre-suppression Jesuit Activity in the British Isles and Ireland
Historical Journal
The Occasional Conformity Controversy, Moderation, and the Anglican Critique of Modernity, 1700-1714
2014 •
History of European Ideas
The Republican Discourse on Religious Liberty during the Exclusion Crisis, History of European Ideas, 38 (2012).
2012 •
2012 •
The Historical Journal
Oaths, Casuistry, and Equivocation: Anglican Responses to the Engagement Controversy
2001 •
2011 •
2010 •
2014 •
Parliamentary History
Drafting the Nineteen Propositions, January-July 1642*
2012 •
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History, edited by Alvin Jackson (Oxford University Press)
Restoration Ireland, 1660-1688
2014 •
