The Trial and Execution of Charles I (1649).
Author | : Alice G. Halvorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Author | : Alice G. Halvorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Author | : K.J. Kesselring |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2016-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146040579X |
In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and other high crimes against his people. Not only did the revolutionary tribunal find him guilty and order his death, but its masters then abolished monarchy itself and embarked on a bold (though short-lived) republican experiment. The event was a landmark in legal history. The trial and execution of King Charles marked a watershed in English politics and political theory and thus also affected subsequent developments in those parts of the world colonized by the British. This book presents a selection of contemporaries’ accounts of the king’s trial and their reactions to it, as well as a report of the trial of the king’s own judges once the wheel of fortune turned and monarchy was restored. It uses the words of people directly involved to offer insight into the causes and consequences of these momentous events.
Author | : David Lagomarsino |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000-10-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 161168059X |
Eyewitness accounts of the trial and execution of Charles I portray a revolutionary moment in English history
Author | : Charles I (King of England) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1737 |
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Author | : J. Peacey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2001-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403932816 |
The events surrounding the trial of Charles I have been remarkably understudied by historians, despite a wealth of information regarding both the proceedings and personalities involved, and contemporary responses and reactions. These essays submit one of the most momentous events in English history to rigorous scholarship, contextualise it in the light of recent historiography, not least regarding relations between the three kingdoms of Britain.
Author | : Mark Parry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 135177865X |
Charles I provides a detailed overview of Charles Stuart, placing his reign firmly within the wider context of this turbulent period and examining the nature of one of the most complex monarchs in British history. The book is organised chronologically, beginning in 1600 and covering Charles’ early life, his first difficulties with his parliaments, the Personal Rule, the outbreak of Civil War, and his trial and eventual execution in 1649. Interwoven with historiography, the book emphasises the impact of Charles’ challenging inheritance on his early years as king and explores the transition from his original championing of international Protestantism to his later vision of a strong and centralised monarchy influenced by continental models, which eventually provoked rebellion and civil war across his three kingdoms. This study brings to light the mass of contradictions within Charles’ nature and his unusual approach to monarchy, resulting in his unrivaled status as the only English king to have been tried and executed by his own subjects. Offering a fresh approach to this significant reign and the fascinating character that held it, Charles I is the perfect book for students of early modern Britain and the English Civil War.
Author | : John Cook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1649 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Matthew Jenkinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192552570 |
When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. Charles I's Killers in America traces the gripping story of two of these men-Edward Whalley and William Goffe-and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there. With fascinating insights into the governance of the American colonies in the seventeenth century, and how a network of colonists protected the regicides, Matthew Jenkinson overturns the enduring theory that Charles II unrelentingly sought revenge for the murder of his father. Charles I's Killers in America also illuminates the regicides' afterlives, with conclusions that have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Anglo-American political and cultural relations. Novels, histories, poems, plays, paintings, and illustrations featuring the fugitives were created against the backdrop of America's revolutionary strides towards independence and its forging of a distinctive national identity. The history of the 'king-killers' was distorted and embellished as they were presented as folk heroes and early champions of liberty, protected by proto-revolutionaries fighting against English tyranny. Jenkinson rewrites this once-ubiquitous and misleading historical orthodoxy, to reveal a far more subtle and compelling picture of the regicides on the run.
Author | : Carl Christophelsmeier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Charles Spencer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2015-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620409127 |
Examines the lives of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant and the far-reaching consequences for them, those present at the trial, and England itself.