... sociological and psychological reasons for sharing information: to reconstruct events, ascertain motives and reach consensus. Oral communication networks were by no means perfect. The diplomats of the 1790s had also played their part as pamphleteers and advocates of ‘hack’ journalism. The French restoration...

... Madrid proclamations Letters postal system Restoration England Theophilus Hastings 7th Earl of Huntington The frontispiece to John Ogilby’s Britannia, published in 1675, presents a lively and highly mobile scene. Just outside of a well-defended fortification are groups of travellers...

...Loyola University of Chicago is a Jesuit institution of higher education whose main campus is located in a crowded urban setting. The university has organized a satellite campus for both undergraduate and graduate students that focuses on restoration of the environmentally sensitive wetlands...

..., translated into Middle English during the restoration of St Bartholomew the Great, and shows how the text’s catalogue of miracles reinvigorates the sanctity of the church at an important moment in its history. The second half of the chapter examines the text’s representation of the foundation of the church...

... Shadwell Thomas Cavendish William finances Settle Elkanah Davenant William Howard Robert frame Island Princess The London English Restoration theatre genre developments paratextual poetics readerly expectations Genres never exist in isolation, and it is probably more accurate to describe...

...Turning from paratextual poetics to actual prose fictions, this chapter discusses how English Restoration writers experimented with narrative form. It shows that various elements of what, in the eighteenth century, will come to define the novel as a new genre were already in use in the late...

...Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that following the reopening of the theatres in 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about...

...Chapter five examines how early Restoration comedy rewrote the English Civil War to address ideas of panegyric and the rhetoric of praise. Although the Restoration was greeted with much festivity, it brought about a fragile political settlement. These plays recast the Civil War in comic mode...

...Historians know Edward Reynolds as bishop of Norwich and a champion of comprehension after the Restoration. But by the time that he ascended to the rank of prelate his clerical career already spanned the decades of the Personal Rule, the English Civil Wars, the Interregnum and the crowning...

...The Afterword to this work links these earlier periods of intelligence and espionage to the coming secret intelligence world of the Restoration and beyond. It discusses how the ideas of the ‘edg’d tools’ of government, secrecy, intelligence and espionage of the Republic and Protectorate impacted...

...This chapter examines the theme of disruption and continuity in English religious life at the Restoration with reference to the differing fortunes of those twin pillars of the Anglican establishment, the Authorized Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. The AV had...

...Despite experiments in the 1650s, through-sung opera failed to gain a firm foothold in Restoration England. Explanations for this circumstance have focussed on English taste, the finances of London’s theatre companies, and the popularity of native ‘dramatick opera’. While these were obstacles...

... order/disorder restoration New Capital Cairo smart cities real-estate speculation In the renewed assault on the island (of Qursaya in 2012), some homes were damaged, and angry residents showed a group of reporters doors that were clearly kicked in. Soldiers were crying out ‘God is great...

... John Restoration Settlement Whitaker William Bacon Sir Francis Bedell William Charles II Gower Stanley Andrewes Lancelot Clarke Samuel puritan biographer comprehension high churchmen Hooker Richard Worcester House Declaration Reformed conformist English Civil War Interregnum episcopacy...

... for its case study, An Answer to Dr Bramhall (1668), in which Hobbes positions himself within the tradition of Reformed and magisterial Protestantism and attacks an eminent Arminian and Laudian bishop. Hobbes wrote his treatise in the midst of a crisis in Restoration England in which the newly re...

...In the scholarly literature on the post-Restoration period, ‘conformity’ typically denotes membership of the established Church and adherence to its liturgy, rites, and episcopal polity. Post-Restoration conformity is thus depicted primarily in ecclesiological and liturgical terms, rather than...

...This volume challenges a traditional period divide of 1660, exploring continuities with the decades of civil war, the Republic and Restoration and shedding new light on religious, political and cultural conditions before and after the restoration of church and monarchy. The volume marks...

... Levellers populism Restoration radicalism Locke, John The Levellers, by 1649, were a force worth defeating. The defeat of the army mutineers was one branch of the new regime’s suppression of radical dissent in the spring of 1649. The arrest of the Leveller leaders Lilburne, Walwyn, Overton, and Prince...

...This chapter focuses on the works of Peter Heylyn during the period from 1660 to 1688. The coronation of Charles II represented the final triumph for Heylyn, although the return of the monarch was not immediately accompanied by the restoration of the Laudian church. During this period, Heylyn...

...Continuing the textual analyses from the previous section, this chapter focuses on the portrayal of characters in Restoration fiction. It shows that far from including exclusively flat characters, various works experimented with fully-rounded and developing characters that reveal an almost...