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The cult of King Charles the martyr

Author: Andrew Lacey
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.
Series: Studies in modern British religious history.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649; rather, its component parts were fashioned during Charles's captivity and were readily available to preachers and eulogists in the weeks and months after the regicide. However, it was the publication of the Eikon Basilike in early February 1649 that established the image of Charles as a suffering, innocent king, walking in the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Charles, King of England; Charles, King of England
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Lacey
ISBN: 0851159222 9780851159225
OCLC Number: 50919926
Description: viii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The royal actor --
Habeas corpus : foundations of the cult before 1649 --
By the rivers of Babylon : the cult in exile --
In verbo tuo spes mea : fashioning the royal martyr --
The return to Zion : he cult and the restored monarchy --
Irreligious rants and civil seditions : the cult in 'the age of party' --
A pattern of religion and virtue : the conservative martyr --
Our own, our royal saint.
Series Title: Studies in modern British religious history.
Responsibility: Andrew Lacey.
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Abstract:

"The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649; rather, its component parts were fashioned during Charles's captivity and were readily available to preachers and eulogists in the weeks and months after the regicide. However, it was the publication of the Eikon Basilike in early February 1649 that established the image of Charles as a suffering, innocent king, walking in the footsteps of his Saviour to his own Calvary at Whitehall. The figure of the martyr and the shared set of images and beliefs surrounding him contributed to the survival of royalism and Anglicanism during the years of exile." "This is the first study to deal exclusively with the cult and takes the story up until 1859, the year in which the Office for the 30th January was removed from the Book of Common Prayer. Apart from discussing the origins of the cult in war, revolution and defeat it reveals the extent to which political debate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was conducted in terms of the Civil Wars. It also goes some way to explaining the persistence of conservative assumptions and patterns of thought."--Jacket.

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