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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment : The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 / Ronald G. Asch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in British and Imperial History ; 2Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781782383567
  • 9781782383574
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.94109/032 23
LOC classification:
  • JC389 .A83 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The Anglo-Gallican Moment: The French and English Monarchies from the Death of Mary Queen of Scots to James I’s Remonstrance for the Right of Kings 1587–1615 -- II Kingship Transformed – Kingship Destroyed? The French and English Monarchies in the 1630s and 1640s -- III In the Shadow of Versailles: Stuart Kingship and the French Monarchy 1678–1688 -- Outlook and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649.  However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I The Anglo-Gallican Moment: The French and English Monarchies from the Death of Mary Queen of Scots to James I’s Remonstrance for the Right of Kings 1587–1615 -- II Kingship Transformed – Kingship Destroyed? The French and English Monarchies in the 1630s and 1640s -- III In the Shadow of Versailles: Stuart Kingship and the French Monarchy 1678–1688 -- Outlook and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon monarchy took the high road to absolutism, while on the other the Stuarts never quite recovered from the diminution of their royal authority following the regicide of Charles I in 1649.  However, both monarchies shared a common medieval heritage of sacral kingship, and their histories remained deeply entangled throughout the century. This study focuses on the interaction between ideas of monarchy and images of power in the two countries between the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the Glorious Revolution. It demonstrates that even in periods when politics were seemingly secularized, as in France at the end of the Wars of Religion, and in latter seventeenth- century England, the appeal to religious images and values still lent legitimacy to royal authority by emphasizing the sacral aura or providential role which church and religion conferred on monarchs.

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