The Devotional Landscape of the Royalist Exile, 1649–1660

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 royali...

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Published in:The Journal of British studies 2014-10, Vol.53 (4), p.909-933
Main Author: Williams, Mark R. F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bargaining
Catholicism
Chronology
Churches
Civil war
Civil wars
Clergy
Community
Courts
Diplomacy
Europe
Exile
Faith
Identity
Ireland
Irish history
Kings
Mobility
Protestant Reformation
Protestantism
Religion
Rumors
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0021-9371
1545-6986
DOI:10.1017/jbr.2014.111