Charles I and Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Contrasts and Comparisons

1989 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 436
Author(s):  
Sears McGee ◽  
Maurice Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Charles I ◽  
Oliver Cromwell

Fatal Adulteries: Sexual Politics in the English Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Samuel Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
English Revolution ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Political Commentary ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Oliver Cromwell ◽  
King Charles I ◽  
Sexual Histories ◽  
Charles Ii

Abstract This article argues for a reconsideration of the origins of Restoration sexual politics through a detailed examination of the effusive sexual polemic of the English Revolution (1642–1660). During the early 1640s, unprecedented political upheaval and a novel public culture of participatory print combined to transform explicit sexual libel from a muted element of prewar English political culture into one of its preeminent features. In the process, political leaders at the highest levels of government—including Queen Henrietta Maria, Oliver Cromwell, and King Charles I—were confronted with extensive and graphic debates about their sexual histories in widely disseminated print polemic for the first time in English history. By the early 1650s, monarchical sexuality was a routine topic of scurrilous political commentary. Charles II was thus well acquainted with this novel polemical milieu by the time he assumed the throne in 1660, and his adoption of the “Merry Monarch” persona early in his reign represented a strategic attempt to turn mid-century sexual politics to his advantage, despite unprecedented levels of contemporary criticism. Restoration sexual culture was therefore largely the product of civil war polemical debate rather than the singular invention of a naturally libertine young king.

Were Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell distant cousins?

1856 ◽  
Vol s2-II (32) ◽  
pp. 120-120
Author(s):  
C. O. C.
Keyword(s):  
Charles I ◽  
Oliver Cromwell

scholarly journals III.—Inedited Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria and Oliver Cromwell. Communicated by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1847 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Thomas Wright
Keyword(s):  
English History ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Oliver Cromwell

It is perhaps not generally known that the different archives of France are full of documents of the greatest interest to English history, many of them dating back to a remote period when such documents are less common than in more recent times. The archives of the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, by far the most difficult of access to foreigners, is especially rich in records of different kinds relating to the affairs of this country during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and in a recent visit to Paris I obtained, through a friend, copies of a few letters of Henrietta Maria (the Queen of Charles I.) and of Oliver Cromwell, which you may perhaps think worthy to be laid before the Society.

‘By the Compass of the Word’: The Life and Piety of William Kiffen — A Quatercentenary Appreciation

2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Michael A. G. Haykin
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Political ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Particular Baptist ◽  
Oliver Cromwell ◽  
Charles Ii

William Kiffen, a central figure in the emergence of the British Particular Baptist community in the seventeenth century, came to congregationalist and baptistic convictions in the political and religious turmoil of the reign of Charles I. By the early 1640s he was a key leader among the Particular Baptists in London, and went on to play a central role in their establishment as a distinct community over the next six decades. He was personally acquainted with not only Oliver Cromwell, but also Charles II and James II. His major literary work was a defense of closed communion, in which he opposed the views of John Bunyan. Kiffen won this debate, and so determined the shape of Baptist polity in the following century.

Obituary notices of deceased fellows

1894 ◽  
Vol 54 (326-330) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Education ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Mathematical School ◽  
Oliver Cromwell

James Jago, B. A. (Cantab.) and M. D. (Oxon.), was a physician of considerable repute in West Cornwall. He was born on December 18, 1815, at the barton of Kigilliack, Budock, near Falmouth, once a seat of the Bishops of Exeter. He was the second son of Mr. John Jago, and the representative of an old Cornish family, who were resident in the parish of St. Erme, near Truro, before the year 1588. One of his lineal ancestors was a staunch Parliamentarian, who was appointed a Commissioner of Sequestration by Oliver Cromwell, after the death of Charles I. Young Jago received his early education at the Falmouth Classical and Mathematical School, where he remained a pupil until about 1833.

THE DUKE OF LORRAINE AND THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE FOR IRELAND, 1649–1653

2005 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 905-932 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHEÁL Ó SIOCHRÚ
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
European Context ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
Oliver Cromwell

Ireland's status as a kingdom or as a colony continues to influence the historiographical debate about the country's relationship with the wider world during the early modern period. Interest in the continent is almost exclusively focused on exiles and migrants, rather than on diplomatic developments. Yet during the 1640s confederate Catholics in Ireland pursued an independent foreign policy, maintaining resident agents abroad, and receiving diplomats in Kilkenny. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649, they sought foreign assistance in their struggle against Oliver Cromwell. In alliance with the exiled House of Stuart, Irish Catholics looked to Charles IV, duke of Lorraine, as a potential saviour. For three years the duke encouraged negotiations in Galway, Paris, and Brussels. He despatched vital military supplies to Ireland, and attempted on at least one occasion to transport troops there from the Low Countries. Although his intervention ultimately failed to turn the tide of the war in Ireland, the English parliamentarians nevertheless believed he posed a serious threat. This detailed study of the duke's role, in the international struggle for Ireland during the early 1650s, largely ignored until now, helps to place the crises of the three Stuart kingdoms in their broader European context.

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