Reinventing Westminster Abbey, 1642-1660: A House of Kings from Revolution to Restoration
While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey - an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority - has been strangely neglected. This article a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2016, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 122-138 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Westminster Abbey (London)
/ Politics
/ History 1642-1660
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDE Anglican Church SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey - an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority - has been strangely neglected. This article argues that the Abbey played an important and distinctive role in the religious and cultural politics of the nation during the 1640s and 1650s. It uncovers the Abbey's role in helping to legitimise successive non-monarchical regimes and ultimately explains how efforts to ‘reclaim’ the Abbey at the Restoration formed part of broader efforts to renegotiate and reinterpret the nation's past. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046914002000 |