Plate made by King James II and VII for the Chapel Royal of Holyroodhouse in 1686

1968 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
David McRoberts ◽  
Charles Oman
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Technical Description ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
The Church

On the 6th February 1685 King James II of England and VII of Scotland succeeded to the throne of Great Britain on the death of his elder brother, King Charles II. His reign, which was to last for less than four years, was beset by many difficulties. A number of these problems stemmed from the fact that James, before his accession, has gone over to the Church of Rome and made no effort to conceal that fact. One of the results of this spiritual allegiance of King James was the provision of Chapels Royal at Whitehall, Windsor, Dublin, and Edinburgh, where James could worship according to the ritual of his Church, and these chapels were duly furnished with suitable altar plate. The altar plate provided for the English and Irish chapels seems to have disappeared but, by a stroke of good fortune, several of the altar vessels made for the Chapel Royal in the Palace of Holyroodhouse have survived. These vessels, which are of superb quality, have up till now escaped the notice of the experts who have dealt with the history of the silversmith's craft in Great Britain. They are now discussed in the following pages: the historical circumstances of their survival will first be described and this will be followed by a technical description of the various surviving pieces.

Governmental Support to the Theatre in Great Britain

1965 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-115
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Sherriffs
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
General Acceptance ◽  
Governmental Support ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

General acceptance of the concept of theatre as an institution possessing positive values worthy of public support is a comparatively recent development in the history of the British theatre. The traditional public attitudes which were unfavorable to theatre (focal point of disorder, disease, moral corruption, and sinful activity) were created during the sixteenth-century power struggle between the Crown, London authorities, and the Church. The formulation of public attitudes favorable to theatre (aesthetic, social, moral, and intellectual stimuli) began when theatre became an agent of social change in the nineteenth century.

II. The Commission for Ecclesiastical Promotions, 1681–84: An Instrument of Tory Reaction

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Beddard
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Proper Perspective ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Lord Chancellor ◽  
The Church ◽  
Better Than

‘Promotion’, says Holy Scripture, ‘cometh neither from the east, nor from the west: nor yet from the south’. Clerical aspirants knew better than the psalmist the strange geography of preferment in Restoration England, where the return in 1660 of the Stuarts did much to encourage in churchmen a greater sense of direction and purpose. Our present study is to elucidate one particular period in the history of preferment, that spanned by the short-lived and little-known Commission for Ecclesiastical Promotions which sat at the height and at the helm of the Tory Reaction. To place the Commission in its proper perspective, however, something must be said of the Restoration Settlement itself. It was, of course, no accident that the hereditary monarchy and Anglican Church returned together. Sir Edward Hyde, foremost of the statesmen at the exiled Court and, from January 1658, lord chancellor to Charles II, had bent his energies to achieve this very end. Yet, for the Church, it was a re-establishment rather than an unqualified restoration, for the loyalist nobility and gentry-the real architects of Sion's delivery-were careful not to resurrect Laud's persecuting prelacy. To understand the changed circumstances in which the Church found herself, it is essential to take account of what was not, as well as what was restored. Neither the imperious Court of High Commission nor the self-incriminating ex officio oath was brought back. Shorn of the chief weapons with which she had formerly harried the more wayward of the political nation, the Church returned as part of the only workable constitution England had ever known, that is as a buttress of monarchy.

Robert Wodrow and The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland

1974 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 488-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Starkey
Keyword(s):  
National Consciousness ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

A dark picture of tyranny and prelatical persecution endured by Scottish Presbyterians under Charles II and James II was created by Robert Wodrow in his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland published in 1721. This image became deeply embedded in the national consciousness much to the despair of apologists of rovalist and episcopalian causes. “That which we have from Wodrow”, Mark Napier complained bitterly, “is a caluminous tissue of monstrous fables. It has poisoned the History of Scotland to an extent that is now, perhaps, irremediable.” But those who wish to revise Wodrow's interpretation of the period cannot do so simply by dismissing his work as fabulous.

Humanities of Scale: Marxism, Surface Reading—and Milton

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Bartolovich
Keyword(s):  
John Milton ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Human Gestures ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Charles Ii

John Milton only enters Slavoj Žižek's in defense of lost causes through a passing reference—to Satan—but in the history of unlikely attempts to draw victory from the jaws of defeat Milton's response to the Restoration ranks high by any standard (345). In 1660, when almost everyone else associated with the revolutionary government was trying to look as innocuous as possible, Milton instead wrote The Ready and Easy Way, a defense of republicanism, published it, then republished it, even as Charles II was on his way back to England. Why make such a seemingly futile, potentially life-threatening gesture? The most interesting answer might be that The Ready and Easy Way is the political equivalent of Walter Benjamin's stunning assessment of art in “The Task of the Translator”: “No poem is intended for the reader …” (253). From this point of view, all great human gestures and accomplishments belong to eternity: they are enacted or produced because they intersect with truth. We can participate in their truth, but that is our good fortune, not their purpose.

The history of the Church in the Chilean historiography 1965-2015 (II)

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 211-226
Author(s):  
Alexandrine De la Taille-Trétinville
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Parafia unicka w Rachaniach do 1811 roku/ The Uniate Parish in Rachanie until 1811

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Adam Frykowski
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Holy Communion ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ancillary Equipment

AbstractThe following paper depicts the history of Saint Simeon Stylites Uniate Parish in Rachanie since it became known in historical sources until 1811- that is the time it ceased to be an independent church unit. The introduction of the article contains the geographical location of the parish, its size and the position within the hierarchical structure of the Church. Having analysed post-visit inspection protocols left by Chelm Bishops, the appearance as well as fittings and ancillary equipment of the church in Rachanie in that particular period are reported. Moreover, the list of 4 local clergymen is recreated and their benefice is determined. As far as possible, both the number of worshipers and the number of Holy Communion receivers is determined.

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