William III and the Godly RevolutionThis book provides the first full account of William III's propaganda during his reign in England, 1689-1702. It thus explores the self-presentation of the English monarchy at a particularly difficult moment. In the 1690s the king had both to justify his irregular succession to the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and to mobilise his country for mass warfare. Unlike most other works on the political language of late Stuart England, this volume does not concentrate upon secular arguments, but rather stresses the importance of religious ideas of the period, insisting that the king solved his ideological problems by posing as a providential ruler sent by God to protect and renew the pure protestant religion. |
Contents
Courtly reformation and the revolution of 16881689 | 24 |
Gilbert Burnet and reformation | 28 |
Reformation in action | 52 |
The resources for royal propaganda | 64 |
Reformation media | 71 |
The propagation for royal propaganda | 90 |
The virtuous court | 91 |
Fasts and thanksgiving | 100 |
Courtly reformation and the politics of party | 148 |
tactful denunciation | 153 |
finding the middle ground | 157 |
Whig and tory responses to courtly reformation | 177 |
Courtly reformation and country politics | 191 |
Country politics before Ryswick | 193 |
the country court | 196 |
the country court preserved | 215 |
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Page 2 - The Revolution of 1689 and the Structure of Political Argument', Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 83 (1980), pp.