Scenes And Traces Of The English Civil War
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Scenes and Traces of the English Civil War
Author | : Stephen Bann |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-05-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781789142662 |
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The English Civil War has become a frequent point of reference in contemporary British political debate. A bitter and bloody series of conflicts, it shook the very foundations of seventeenth-century Britain. This book is the first attempt to portray the visual legacy of this period, as passed down, revisited, and periodically reworked over two and a half centuries of subsequent English history. Highly regarded art historian Stephen Bann deftly interprets the mass of visual evidence accessible today, from ornate tombs and statues to surviving sites of vandalism and iconoclasm, public signage, and historical paintings of human subjects, events, and places. Through these important scenes and sometimes barely perceptible traces, Bann shows how the British view of the War has been influenced and transformed by visual imagery.
Drama and Politics in the English Civil War
Author | : Susan Wiseman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 1998-04-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521472210 |
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In 1642 an ordinance closed the theatres of England. Critics and historians have assumed that the edict was to be firm and inviolate. Susan Wiseman challenges this assumption and argues that the period 1640 to 1660 was not a gap in the production and performance of drama nor a blank space between 'Renaissance drama' and the 'Restoration stage'. Rather, throughout the period, writers focused instead on a range of dramas with political perspectives, from republican to royalist. This group included the short pamphlet dramas of the 1640s and the texts produced by the writers of the 1650s, such as William Davenant, Margaret Cavendish and James Shirley. In analysing the diverse forms of dramatic production of the 1640s and 1650s, Wiseman reveals the political and generic diversity produced by the changes in dramatic production, and offers insights into the theatre of the Civil War.
The Civil War in Yorkshire
Author | : David Cooke |
Publsiher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2004-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783460045 |
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During the English Civil Wars the streets and fields of Yorkshire were fought over for the control of the county. In the bitter confrontation between king and Parliament, Yorkshire was the key to control of the North. This historical guide tells the story of this Yorkshire war, using contemporary accounts, early and modern maps and a wealth of other illustrations. It also provides detailed tours of the battlegrounds and other sites.
The English Civil War
Author | : Peter Gaunt |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780857723857 |
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Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert, on rolling moorland west of York. But that battle, Marston Moor, had also slain his own nephew, the recipient's firstborn. In this vividly narrated history of the deadly conflict that engulfed the nation during the 1640s, Peter Gaunt shows that, with the exception of World War I, the death-rate was higher than any other contest in which Britain has participated. Numerous towns and villages were garrisoned, attacked, damaged or wrecked. The landscape was profoundly altered. Yet amidst all the blood and killing, the fighting was also a catalyst for profound social change and innovation. Charting major battles, raids and engagements, the author uses rich contemporary accounts to explore the life-changing experience of war for those involved, whether musketeers at Cheriton, dragoons at Edgehill or Cromwell's disciplined Ironsides at Naseby (1645).
Decisive Battles of the English Civil War
Author | : Malcolm Wanklyn |
Publsiher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2006-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781473813922 |
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In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles ofthe English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I, Cheriton, Marston Moor, Newbury II, Naseby, and Preston - he looks critically at contemporary accounts and at historians' narratives, explores the surviving battlegrounds and retells the story of each battle from a new perspective. His lucid, closely argued analysis questions traditional assumptions about each battle and the course of the war itself.
The English Civil War A People s History Text Only
Author | : Diane Purkiss |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780007369119 |
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This popular history of the English Civil War tells the story of the bloody conflict between Oliver Cromwell and Charles I from the perspectives of those involved.
The Impact of the English Civil War
Author | : John Stephen Morrill |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : IND:30000025544200 |
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English Civil War Fortifications 1642 51
Author | : Peter Harrington |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781849080088 |
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The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. The series of conflicts in the 1640s, known collectively as the English Civil War, was the first in the British Isles that reflected this new reality. Sieges that aimed at isolating and reducing fortified places became the dominant instrument for prosecuting the war and protective fortifications were vital, for both the besieged as well as the besieger. This title describes how both the Parliamentarians and the Royalists made use of new fortification techniques throughout the course of this conflict.