The Devotional Landscape of the Royalist Exile, 1649–1660

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ID10065654
AutoresMark R F Williams (0000-0002-3990-0669, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume53
Fascículo4
Páginas909-933
Data de publicação2014-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of British Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/jbr.2014.111
OpenAlexW2080426412
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas33

This study aims both to build upon and to challenge recent historiographical interest in the cultural origins and religious associations of royalism in the midseventeenth century by examining the devotional character of the exiled royalist community of the 1650s. Focusing primarily upon those royalists closely affiliated with the court of Charles II, it assesses the impact of disillusionment, dislocation, penury, and forced mobility upon the subsequent framings and reframings of religious identities. It considers the multiple venues in which these articulations appeared and were negotiated—through personal correspondence, print, diplomacy, rumor, and conversion—in order to illuminate the challenges posed to the maintenance of clear confessional boundaries and community ideals. In doing so, this article argues for the incorporation of a much broader sense of the impact of the “English Revolution” that considers the full geographical, chronological, and cultural scope of these upheavals across Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe

Character (mathematics · Confessional · Diplomacy · Historiography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Royalist · Sociology · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity