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The Cult of King Charles the Martyr

  • Hardback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell& Brewer Ltd
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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For readers interested in royal history and theology.

"The Cult of King Charles the Martyr" explains its origins.

You’ll understand the impact on faith and politics today.

Discover the fascinating history of King Charles the Martyr and how his legacy shaped royalism and Anglicanism in this insightful study by Andrew Lacey.

The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649. Its component parts were fashioned during Charles' 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. With the Restoration, the cult was given official status by the annexing of the Office for the 30th January in the "Book of Common Prayer" in 1662. The political theology underpinning the cult and a particular historiography of the Civil Wars were presented as the only orthodox reading of these events. Yet from the Exclusion Crisis onwards dissonant voices were heard challenging the orthodox interpretation.In these circumstances, the cult began to fragment between those who retained the political theology of the 1650s and those who sought to adapt the cult to the changing political and dynastic circumstances of 1688 and 1714. 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 also 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. Andrew Lacey is currently Special Collections Librarian, University of Leicester, and College Librarian, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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  • Title

    The Cult of King Charles the Martyr

  • Author

    Andrew Lacey

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Boydell& Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    March 2003

  • Edition

    Revised ed.

  • Weight

    627g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780851159225

  • ISBN-10

    0851159222

  • Eden Code

    1165311

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