Format:
Online-Ressource (192 p.)
ISBN:
9781852851194
Content:
In recent years Jacobitism has become a subject of growing interst to historians amid academic controversy over various aspects of the subject. The least-known phase of Jacobitism, although in many ways the most important, is the period 1689 to 1718, when the Stuart court in exile was at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the residence of the kings of France until Louis XIV built Versailles. This collection of essays illuminates the early development of Jacobitism, placing the movement in a coherent historical context. The volume includes an introduction by Edward Corp on the Stuart court and an essay by
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Attempts to Restore the Stuarts, 1689-96; 2 Jacobites in Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye; 3 Sir James Montgomerie of Skelmorlie; 4 The Abortive Invasion of 1692; 5 John, First Lord Caryll of Durford, and the Caryll Papers; 6 The Innes Brothers and the Scots College, Paris; 7 Roger North, Historian and Attorney-General to Queen Mary of Modena; 8 Jacobite Ideology in Scotland and at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; 9 The Jacobite Press and English Censorship, 1689-95; 10 Toby Bourke, Ambassador of James III at the Court of Philip V, 1705-13; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826426451
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781852851194
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Stuart Court in Exile and the Jacobites
Language:
English
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