Format:
1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
ISBN:
9781472418579
Content:
Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son in 1660. England's Fortress shines new light on this significant yet surprisingly understudied figure through a selection of essays addressing a wide range of topics, from military history to poetry. Divided into two sections, the volume reflects key aspects of Fairfax's life and career which are, nevertheless, as interconnecting as they are discrete: Fairfax the soldier and statesman, and Fairfax the husband, horseman and scholar. This fresh account of Fairfax's reputations and legacy questions assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a man who subverts as much as he reinforces assumed characteristics of martial invincibility, political disengagement and literary dilettantism
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Fairfax: Soldier and Statesman -- 1 'In So Shifting a Scene': Thomas Fairfax as Lord of the Isle of Man, 1651-60 -- 2 Sir Thomas Fairfax and Siege Warfare during the English Civil Wars -- 3 Naseby: Landscape of a Battle -- 4 Remembering (and Forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields -- 5 Images of Fairfax in Modern Literature and Film -- Part II: Fairfax: Husband, Horseman and Scholar -- 6 Anne and Thomas Fairfax, and the Vere Connection -- 7 'O how I love these Solitudes': Thomas Fairfax and the Poetics of Retirement -- 8 'The Genius of the house': Andrew Marvell's Private Lord Fairfax -- 9 An Appleton Psalter: The Shared Devotions of Thomas Fairfax and Andrew Marvell -- 10 Gentlemen's Recreation and Georgic Improvement: Lord Fairfax on Horse Breeding -- Works Cited -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472418562
Additional Edition:
Print version Hopper, Andrew England's Fortress : New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax Farnham : Taylor & Francis,c2014 ISBN 9781472418562
Language:
English
