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Civil War - The History of England Volume III (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
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Civil War - The History of England Volume III (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
Series: The History of England
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List price R380
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In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of
England's history, beginning with the progress south of the
Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the
first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and
flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty
brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one
realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo
to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked
by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king.
Ackroyd paints a vivid portrait of James I and his heirs. Shrewd
and opinionated, the new King was eloquent on matters as diverse as
theology, witchcraft and the abuses of tobacco, but his attitude to
the English parliament sowed the seeds of the division that would
split the country in the reign of his hapless heir, Charles I.
Ackroyd offers a brilliant - warts and all - portrayal of Charles's
nemesis Oliver Cromwell, Parliament's great military leader and
England's only dictator, who began his career as a political
liberator but ended it as much of a despot as 'that man of blood',
the king he executed. England's turbulent seventeenth century is
vividly laid out before us, but so too is the cultural and social
life of the period, notable for its extraordinarily rich
literature, including Shakespeare's late masterpieces, Jacobean
tragedy, the poetry of John Donne and Milton and Thomas Hobbes'
great philosophical treatise, Leviathan. Civil War also gives us a
very real sense of the lives of ordinary English men and women,
lived out against a backdrop of constant disruption and
uncertainty.
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