Royalism and the Three Stuart Kingdoms

Ideas in Action in the Wars of the 1640s
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-42098-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

This book addresses a conundrum. Alone of the major competing political interests during the civil wars of the 1640s, royalism needed to transcend attachment to one nation or one religious tradition and recruit a support base in each of England, Ireland and Scotland. This book aims to provide a concise interpretation and reassessment of royalism during these crucial years and focuses on this dilemma, and on the resources, intellectual and practical, deployed to address it, with mixed success. It focuses on the key ideas and values which made royalism a formidable political alternative, rather than on the more usual factional, military or literary perspectives. It argues that a ‘three-kingdom’ perspective not only gives a broader view but also clarifies the distinctive characteristics of English royalism, more robust than its counterparts in the other nations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Royalist Cause?.- 2. Royalism Reborn: Scotland.- 3. Royalist Peacemaking: Ireland and England.- 4. Thinking Royalist.- 5. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Armstrong is Fellow and Associate Professor in History at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.