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Crown-magnate relations, 1437-1460McGladdery, Christine Anne January 1988 (has links)
This thesis examines the relations between James II and those magnates who were active in politics during his reign, which lasted from 1437-1460. The Black Douglas family were of particular importance during both the minority and the personal rule of James II and their rise to prominence, conflict with the king, and ultimate downfall is studied with particular reference to their bases of power and support. The attitude of the king to the higher, and, where appropriate, lesser nobility is considered, and the thesis traces the development of the political community from the beginning of the reign, when the ranks of the higher nobility were severely depleted, to the state of the realm and its leaders at the time of the king's death in 1460. The major conflict with the Black Douglases is examined through official records and chronicle references and the various stages in the development of the contest are outlined and assessed. The attitude of the other members of the political community to the Crown/Douglas conflict is studied, and the king's methods of courting support, particularly through patronage, are traced. The attacks launched by the king on certain members of the nobility or, in the case of the Livingston faction, royal office holders, are considered, as are his efforts to build up the position of certain families and replenish the ranks of the nobility by creating certain earldoms and lordships of parliament. The rise of honorific dignities, i. e, the bestowal of titles which did not necessarily include the granting of any new land, is discussed, and the king's relationship with the three estates gathered in Parliament or General Council is assessed. The view of the reign of James II which appears in modern histories is traced through from contemporary sources with particular reference to the histories written in the sixteenth century which have provided much of the material, including errors and distortions, which have formed recent assessments.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England : form and styleOssar, Naomi January 2010 (has links)
Typescript (photocopy). / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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L'échec du règne de Jacques II en Angleterre (1688) et en Irlande (1690) : analyse d'une personnalité mise en contexte / The failure of King James II's reign in England (1688) and in Ireland (1690) : the analysis of a personality in contextLobry Bellamy, Stéphanie 19 December 2013 (has links)
Ce travail de recherche explore le rôle de la personnalité de Jacques II dans son insuccès en tant que roi en Angleterre en 1688 et en Irlande en 1690. Il a pour objectif de montrer que son échec dans les deux pays n'est pas uniquement le résultat de situations religieuse, politique et économique très complexes qui sont déstabilisées à l'arrivée d'un roi catholique sur le trône, mais aussi le résultat d'une personnalité inapte aux fonctions royales. Dans un premier temps, nous avons analysé le contexte religieux, politique et économique dans lequel s'inscrit le début du règne de Jacques II en 1685. Notre objectif était de comprendre la nature des enjeux et des tensions dans les deux pays avant son arrivée au pouvoir pour déterminer à quel point sa gouvernance était vouée, ou non, à un échec. Malgré l'existence de nombreux facteurs indéniablement défavorables, la présence d'éléments tout aussi importants permettant de stabiliser et même de renforcer son autorité et ses soutiens en début de règne nous a montré que les raisons de l'échec de Jacques II doivent aussi trouver des réponses dans la psychologie du personnage. Par conséquent, nous avons entrepris une analyse psychologique de Jacques II pour définir ses traits les plus caractéristiques et comprendre si ces derniers le rendaient apte à assumer la fonction royale. Nous avons découvert que l'échec du règne de Jacques II est en grande partie celui d'un homme qui, non seulement n'était pas fait pour être roi mais, de surcroît, était enfermé dans des principes personnels très rigides qui plaçaient ses décisions presque systématiquement en décalage avec les attentes de ses alliés principaux en Angleterre et en Irlande. / This dissertation explores the role of James II's personality in his failures as King of England in 1688 and of Ireland in 1690. Its mains objective is to show that his setbacks in these two countries do not only originate from very complex religious, political and economic situations which became destabilized when a catholic King ascended the throne, but were also the result of a personality lacking leadership qualities. First of all, we studied the religious, political and economic contex in which James II became King in 1685. Our goal was to understand the issues and tensions at stake in the two countries before James II's enthronement to determine to what extent his governance had been doomed to failure or not. Despite many adverse situations, the presence of equally important elements to stabilize and even strengthen his authority and his supports at the beginning of his reign showed us that the reasons for the failure of King James II were also likely to be related to his psychology. Consequently we undertook a psychological analysis of James II in order to find out more about his most characteristic features and understand if they were compatible with his royal office. We found that the failure of King James II's reign was that of a man who was not only poorly adequate for kindship, but who, in addition, was stuck in personal values which made him make decisions which were most frequently at odds with the demands of his key allies in England and Ireland.
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Buttressing a Monarchy: Literary Representations of William III and the Glorious RevolutionDolan, Jr., Richard L. 12 May 2005 (has links)
This study examines ways in which supporters of William III and his opponents used literature to buttress their respective views of government in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. Understanding the polemical character of this art provides more insight both into the literature of the 1690s and into the modes of political debate in the period. As the English people moved from a primarily hereditary view of monarchy at the beginning of the seventeenth century to a more elective view of government in the eighteenth century, the Glorious Revolution proved to be a watershed event. Those favoring James II relied on patriarchal ideas to characterize the new regime as illegitimate, and supporters of the coregent asserted the priority of English and Biblical law to assert that the former king forfeited his right to rule. Chapter one examines three thinkers – Robert Filmer, John Milton, and John Locke – whose thought provides a context for opinions expressed in the years surrounding William of Orange’s ascension to the English throne. In chapter two, John Dryden’s response to James II’s abdication is explored. As the deposed Poet Laureate and a prominent voice supporting of the Stuart line, Dryden sheds light on ways in which Jacobites resisted the authority of the new regime through his response to the Glorious Revolution. Chapter three addresses the work of Thomas Shadwell, who succeeded Dryden as Laureate, and Matthew Prior, whose poetry Frances Mayhew Rippy characterizes as “unofficial laureate verse.” These poets rely on ideas similar to those expressed by Milton and Locke as they seek to validate the events of 1688-1689. The final chapter explores the appropriation of varied conceptions of government in pamphlets and manuscripts written in favor of James II and William III. Focusing on the polemical character of these works from the late 1680s and the 1690s enhances our understanding of the period’s literature and the prominent interaction of politics and writing.
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Otázka nástupnictví Jakuba, vévody z Yorku, za vlády Karla II. Stuarta / The Question of Succession of James, Duke of York, during the Reign of Charles IIChmelíková, Pavla January 2019 (has links)
This diploma thesis deals with 70s and 80s in 17the century in England. During this period of the reign of Charles II Stuart comes to the forefront the question of succession, which culminated in the so-called exclusion crisis (1679-1681). The thesis will try to outline in seven chapters, including the introduction and conclusion, the development of the crisis of succession associated with the person of James, Duke of York. The first part of the work will focus on the period before the exclusion crisis and will highlight important moments such as the approval of the Test Act or the Popish Plot. Another part of the thesis will deal with the period of crisis itself until the dissolution of the last Exclusion Parliament in Oxford in 1681 and the defeat the Whig party. The last chapter will close the whole question of succession in 1685, the death of Charles II Stuart and the advent of James II to the English throne.
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Pamphleteers and Promiscuity: Writing and Dissent between the English Exclusion Crisis and the Glorious RevolutionBarefoot, Thomas B. 14 September 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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Vznik Anglo-skotské unie roku 1707 / The establishment of the Anglo-Scotish Union in 1707Nesvadbová, Dominika January 2021 (has links)
This diploma thesis analyzes the genesis of the issues of the Anglo-Scottish union. In its introduction the diploma thesis shortly mentions the events from the end of English Civil War in 1651 until the death of Charles II King of England. The thesis will deal in more detail with the genesis of the Anglo-Scottish and political relations as well as historical events of England from the reign of the catholic King of England James II, his expeletion in 1688, and consequential arrival of his nephew and at the same time son-in-law William III of Orange with his wife Queen Mary II. Thereafter Queen Anne of Great Britain, who became a successor to the throne in 1702, as the second daughter of King James II, during whose reign the Union and Great Britain was established, to her death in 1714 and the arrival of the Hanoverian dynasty. The diploma thesis does not lose focus attention to causation and circumstances, which brought the English and the Scots closer together, and resulting conclusion of the Anglo-Scottish union in 1707. And last but not least it also analyzes implications of these connections for future development of Great Britain.
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The two Marys: gender and power in the revolution of 1688-89Kuester, Peter Allen January 2009 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Centered around the accounts of two women—Mary Aubry, a French Catholic midwife living in London, who was burned at the stake for murdering her abusive husband, and Queen Mary of Modena, the Italian Catholic wife of James II, who allegedly tried to pass off an imposter child as her legitimate heir in the so-called “warming pan scandal,” this is a study of murder, deceit, betrayal, paranoia, and repression in seventeenth-century England. The stories of the two Marys are both stories of palpable anxiety. Though the two women bear little resemblance at first glance, they were rumored to have conspired to guarantee a male heir for James II by any means necessary. According to the London gossips, these women were willing to betray, and even kill their husbands in the case of Mary Aubry, to protect their secret plot to perpetuate a line of Catholic princes in England. Though there was little evidence to substantiate this rumor and it quickly disappeared in media accounts, these two women continued to inspire vitriolic attacks from the London press that reveal strikingly similar public concerns. Their stories struck chords of fear within audiences in late seventeenth century England that knew their entire world was threatened. Endangered by a king, James II—who appeared determined to reinstitute Catholicism in England, who showed a penchant for absolutist policies, and who seemed to have fallen into the orbit of the domineering Louis XIV—the public’s apprehension and fear was only heightened by these stories. Just as unnerving as the fears about absolutism, Catholicism and foreign domination was the specter of internal collusion that endangered not simply the political and religious spheres of English Protestant society, but also social and familial hierarchies as well. To much of late seventeenth century English society, the two Marys represented all that was wrong with the world. They were traitors to their families, traitors to the nation, and traitors to the divine. / indefinitely
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A Pragmatic Standard of Legal ValidityTyler, John 2012 May 1900 (has links)
American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.
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