Overview
Explores how loyalty to the British monarchs was cultivated, maintained and expressed in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries
Approaches the concept of loyalty from different perspectives: from the legislature, from the government and from religion
Analyses the role that loyalty played in the many trials that the British monarchy faced in the late medieval and early modern period
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Loyalty to Late Medieval and Early Tudor Monarchs
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Loyalty to the Later Tudors and Early Stuarts
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Loyalty, Civil War and Restoration in the Seventeenth Century
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About this book
This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era also witnessed changes in how loyalty was developed and expressed. The first section focuses on royal propaganda and expressions of loyalty from the gentry and nobility under the Yorkist and early Tudor monarchs, as well as the fifteenth-century Scottish monarchy. The chapters illustrate late-medieval conceptions of loyalty, exploring how they manifested themselves and how they persisted and developed into early modernity. Loyalty to the later Tudors and early Stuarts is scrutinised in the second section, gauging the growing level of dissent in the build-up to the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. The final section dissects the role that the concept of loyalty played during and after the Civil Wars, looking at how divergent groups navigated this turbulent period and examining the ways in which loyalty could be used as a means of surviving the upheaval.
Reviews
“Ranging widely in time and space, from late medieval England to late seventeenth-century Virginia, the contributions to this volume demonstrate that the concept of loyalty was highly contested in this period and often used to discriminate and exclude. … the contributors have made a significant contribution to understanding of loyalty in the early modern period.” (Ted Vallance, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 61 (2), April, 2022)
“The strengths of the collection show clearly from the beginning; it covers an impressive range of topics, localities, and chronology on the theme of loyalty … . This volume is a necessary addition to the growing conversation in early modern studies examining concepts of loyalty. Ward, Hefferan, and all the contributors are hopefully quite proud of this diverse and well-put-together collection of chapters, which is a great primer for the subject at hand and opens further conversations and research.” (Courtney Herber, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 8 (2), 2021)
“The editors should be congratulated on a well-balanced volume which is an important addition to the historiography on loyalty to the monarchy.” (Mark Shearwood, History – The Journal of the Historical Association, Vol. 106 (370), March, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Matthew Ward is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He authored The Livery Collar in Late Medieval England and Wales: Politics, Identity and Affinity (2016), and is currently preparing his second monograph, The Culture of Loyalty in Fifteenth-Century England.
Matthew Hefferan is a Teaching Associate in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on the royal household knight in later medieval England. He is currently preparing a monograph on the household knights of King Edward III, to be published in 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c.1400-1688
Editors: Matthew Ward, Matthew Hefferan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37767-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37766-3Published: 01 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37769-4Published: 01 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37767-0Published: 30 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 302
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, History of Early Modern Europe, Political History